A biography for Maya Wileyhasn’t been written yet.
“My mother used to read me from Bank Street schools, that book, you know, Bank Street school had these early reader books. And my mother would read to my brother and I and we had all those advantages that everyone says you need to be successful in school and I was successful in school.”
“It's not just organizing that demands affordable and fast mobile internet access. Small business owners depend on equal and fair online access for their livelihoods.”
“I remember being a child eagerly looking out the Amtrak window, waiting for the New York City skyline to emerge.”
“Part of the challenge always with issues of public safety is, you know, fear is real and it has to be recognized as real. I mean, people are fearful for reasons that are not totally irrational, right?”
“It's absolutely true we have to pay attention to whether low-income people of any race are able to access quality, higher education.”
“Big telecommunications monopolies - many of whom now seek to be content providers as well - shouldn't be able to price others out of the market simply because they can't pay as much as the giants.”
“My mother was this White woman from Texas, from a racist town raised to believe in the inferiority of others by her community, not necessarily by her parents, but certainly by the community around her. And she fled it.”
“Considering that police have life and death power over the public they are sworn to protect and serve, we have the right to expect public accountability to ensure that we can protect ourselves, as well.”
“If you tap people's racial anxieties, you're not going to get them to be able to hear any of your facts.”
“Legal arguments, particularly when they reach the highest court in the land, can be detached from daily life.”
“We used to watch my father, who was a civil-rights activist, get arrested on TV sometimes, and we never knew if he was going to be home for dinner.”
“Police discipline certainly does occur; it just does not often lead to change.”
“I think women are particularly open-minded, partly because we're cultivated to be and also because we're collaborative.”
“Democrats and Republicans agree that police misconduct should be better tracked. But agreement appears to end there.”
“I am not a conventional candidate.”
“We don't have to agree on solutions to our problems or who is best positioned to lead us to them.”
“I lived in a low-income Black community, grew up with kids on welfare and with Black folks driving Cadillacs, going to private schools and everything in between. My literal biological aunties are deeply religious. I got it all.”
“I am a Black woman raised by parents who were active in the civil-rights movement.”
“My daughter had a Howard Dean Beanie Baby and that didn't help him. T-shirts don't win elections.”
“Like every New Yorker, I know this place is magic. I know this place is amazing. I know that we have come back time and time again from a great recession, from high crime rates, from 9/11, from crisis after crisis.”