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Melissa Harris-Perry Quotes: Look, I grew up in, went to school in, and now live in the American South, and southern white women are interesting, complex and quirky, even the ones with racial anxieties.
         

Look, I grew up in, went to school in, and now live in the American South, and southern white women are interesting, complex and quirky, even the ones with racial anxieties.


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So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.



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Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests.



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With Donald Trump, you know, what I would tell you is that he's got shelf life like I never would have guessed.



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You just have to be strong if you're a black woman.



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Once it's everybody's responsibility and not just the household's we start making better investments.



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Politics are a part of athletics now. Politics is a part of everything. And athletics is no exception.



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I had a friend say to me the other day, I hate when I see Jonathan Metzl on your show because I know it's bad news. I know that there has been a shooting.



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Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.



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From 2001 to 2012 at least 6,410 women were murdered by an intimate partner using a gun. That's more than the number of U.S. troops killed in action in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.





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