Julianne Malveaux Quotes

#1. You still don't like the idea of gay marriage? Then, as my friend the economist Julianne Malveaux says: Don't marry a gay person. Case closed, problem solved.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#2. The greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.

Anthony De Mello

#3. References to everybody just disturb me, and it also disturbs me that the people who make policy are not the same people who live policy. When we talk about everybody, we are leaving a whole lot of bodies out.

Julianne Malveaux

#4. I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.

J. D. Souther

#5. Don't get bogged down by life and other people's problems or hang ups.

Angela Merkel

#6. Imagine how much a man's life would change if he trusted that he was loved by God.

Donald Miller

#7. There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there.

Julianne Malveaux

#8. In 2009, at the height of the global economic crisis, it was clear that we were seeing something new: the impacts of the crisis were flowing across borders at unprecedented velocity.

Ban Ki-moon

#9. We are not victims of our past, we are victors of our future

Tina Mitchell

#10. Of course I am thinking the Lord was once young and will never in fact be old.
And who else could this be, who goes off down the green path,
Carrying his sandals, and singing?

Mary Oliver

#11. Being a parent is a weird juggling act - and nobody does it right. Everybody does it wrong.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#12. When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

Julianne Malveaux

#13. I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease ... He is an absolutely reprehensible person.

Julianne Malveaux

#14. It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

G.K. Chesterton

#15. George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.

Julianne Malveaux

#16. History belongs to she who holds the pen ... If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.

Julianne Malveaux

#17. For me, writing's the only thing that's always real. I've never regretted a day I wrote a good scene, whatever else I screwed up that day. That's what's fucking real.

Scott Westerfeld