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“For the longest time - forever, really - I thought being pro-business was woven into the DNA of the GOP, especially when it comes to walling off corporations from such things as regulation and taxation.”
“Trump's problems with race is an old story for New York.”
“Gerrymandering is a problem, of course, and the Senate is built in a way that disadvantages Democrats. Unfair as it may be, voter participation is the one power individuals can wield against those headwinds.”
“I know I'm going back some decades, but I'll never forget the discomfort of being one of the few Black kids in a predominantly White school, especially during history class when slavery, the Civil War, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. or the civil rights movement would come up.”
“One of the best strategies to learn something new during an interview is to ask the subject if there was a question they wished I had asked but hadn't. Usually, they repeat what they said earlier.”
“At night, I always walk down well-lit streets with lots of foot traffic. Far too many automatically deem Black people in dark spaces as suspicious.”
“Caught in a racial uproar, people make all sorts of promises to make amends. Whatever they do tends to be heavy on symbolism and light on lasting change.”
“New Yorkers have borne witness to a slew of horrific crimes that strike at the heart of their collective sense of security.”
“In 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to be nominated for and to win an Oscar. It was a step forward, even if most of the country wasn't ready for it; McDaniel wasn't even allowed to sit with her castmates, and the award didn't do much to help her career.”
“I'm all for keeping people out of jail who shouldn't be there. And I'm certainly all for the equal application of our laws, even the Second Amendment. But the trade-off - more guns legally on the street and concealed - hardly makes me feel safer.”
“The fight for women's rights is all our fight. It always has been.”
“Biden is neither an empowered king nor an autocrat.”
“Whenever I leave my apartment, especially if I go on a head-cleansing walk, I always have three things in my pocket: my driver's license, health insurance card and Washington Post business card with my husband's cellphone number and message to call him in an emergency.”
“When I came out to my mother in 1990, her first words of advice were to not tell anyone. She said being gay could hurt my nascent career. The reaction was as painful as it was understandable: Back then, the world was a very different place for a 20-something LGBTQ American.”
“I'm not saying that Kamala Harris walks on water. Her Chuck Taylors got plenty wet from the growing pains that come with adjusting to being a heartbeat away from the presidency.”
“Our Constitution is a mighty document, but the rights it secures require constant vigilance - and the unwavering voices of justices who dissent against acts of 'raw judicial power' that would take those rights away.”
“Any Black person who thinks there is a loophole to avoid paying the respectability tax is delusional. Recognizing that doesn't make you any less Black. It makes you realistic.”
“Stand strong in your beliefs and fight for them, even if it makes friends nervous and angers the other side.”
“Some of the best men I've known have had generous hearts that reinforced firm values and high expectations.”
“Trump is a man for whom loyalty is a one-way street.”