Melissa Harris-Perry Quotes

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  • Housing affects everything, and we continue to live in very, very segregated communities.

    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
  • I hate to play YouTube.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • I can understand how someone might read wearing a blonde wig as a desire to be white, but I suspect that the same shaming smirk can happen if you wear a big afro or any number of other hairstyles.

    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
  • I don't know what people mean when they ask me whether I'm embracing my whiteness. Whiteness is ubiquitous.

    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
  • I think the idea that you're somehow rejecting whiteness if you don't identify yourself as biracial is odd because everybody engages in whiteness. If you live in America, you're doing whiteness all the time, even if you have no white people in your family.

    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
  • I do feel like there`s this Republican Party establishment is in disarray. That`s the story that the Donald Trump surge seems to tell.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • 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.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children. 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.

    "'Collective' outrage over MSNBC promo". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. April 9, 2013.
  • The Republicans don't need black folks to vote Republican, they just need them to not vote.

    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
  • The land on which they (the Founding Fathers) formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were enslaved. The women who birthed the citizens of the nation are second class. This is the imperfect fabric of our nation, at times we’ve torn and stained it, and at other moments, we mend and repair it. But it’s ours, all of it. The imperialism, the genocide, the slavery, also the liberation and the hope and the deeply American belief that our best days still lie ahead of us.

  • I just keep thinking of how many times I`ve heard Ferguson effect. And I`ve heard it because of protests, officers are afraid to do their job because of - because of a YouTube effect.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests.

    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
  • Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional human value.

  • The problem is that many of our policymakers want to base sweeping laws on those feelings.

  • I'm horrible with money. I make bad business decisions every hour of the day.

    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
  • Terrifying mass shooting and high-profile officer-involved incidents have dominated the national conversation on gun violence in recent years. But most deaths by gun are not headline-grabbing massacres. They`re more private, more intimate, and perhaps in that way, even more horrifying. Domestic violence, make no mistake, domestic violence is a gun issue.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • Undoubtedly, the biggest influence on my life is my mom, followed pretty closely by my dad.

    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
  • The leading non-establishment Republican candidate for president, Donald Trump, is just sailing past [establishment Republican candidates] in the polls. He is still surging. He is basically killing them all.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • Bill Cosby was charged with sexual assault. No matter the outcome of this case this moment is an important public acknowledgement that even though many years have passed, there`s still the responsibility to take charges of sexual assault seriously.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • A recent analysis of election coverage by the Tindall report which tracks network nicely news programs found that Bernie Sanders received just ten minutes out of 857 minutes of campaign coverage in 2015. Compare that to 234 minutes for Donald Trump, and 113 for Hillary Clinton.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • Politics are a part of athletics now. Politics is a part of everything. And athletics is no exception.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • You can`t use hair spray, because hair spray is going to affect the ozone. I`m trying to figure out - okay, I`m in my room in New York City and I want to put a little spray, so that I can - all right? Right?

    New York   Ozone   Hair  
    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • She had me at Sweet Valley High. Gay playfully crosses the borders between pop culture consumer and critic, between serious academic and lighthearted sister-girl, between despair and optimism, between good and bad. . . . How can you help but love her?

  • A big part of the Republican 2016 race is now basically a bunch of establishment Republicans going after each other. Jeb Bush going after Marco Rubio, and the governors, Chris Christie going after Marco Rubio. Rubio firing back, John Kasich going after Jeb Bush.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • Many people consider darts a sport, with a live audience and very excited fans and competitors who aren`t hitting the bull`s-eye.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • I do think that we have to be careful not to assume that getting a perm or wearing a blonde wig is a desire for whiteness. It may or may not be. Listen, I live in a poor black neighborhood where women wear blue hair, green hair, and all kinds of stuff. So, I simply see it as a different set of choices.

    Hair  
    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
  • Drink lots of water, and nap. I've made some really big messes along the way, whether on the academic side or on the media side. It hasn't been a straight path. But a lot of those mess-ups have led to opportunities, so I guess I'd say be fearless, and keep bottled water with you, so you don't dehydrate.

    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
  • 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.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • While the establishment Republican candidates are busy doing this, attacking each other, and doing everything they can to bring each other down, they seem to be missing the bull`s-eye. They`re missing the targets.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • I learned that you can't write a book in the margins of your life. I'd forgotten how much uninterrupted time it takes to write chapters, and how you have to push everything else aside and really focus.

    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
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