“I always want to read something about our people's enslavement near the 4th. To keep it light, I also read Rolanda Watts' "Destiny Lingers" She is a sisterfriend and I ran into her at Essence. Then, I finished Paul Taylor's "The Next America." Taylor is the Executive VP at the Pew Research Center, and he uses their excellent data base to talk about the coming "generational showdown" which we are experiencing, at some level, in Black America.”
![“[Barack Obama] intended, I think, to say that he took Trayvon's [ Martin] death somewhat personally.” quote by Julianne Malveaux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d7f/julianne-malveaux-8775_barack_barack-obama-intended-i-think-to-say-tha_271237.jpg)
![“As I write in the book, I do not regret either of my votes for President [Barack] Obama, nor my support of him when he ran for the Senate before that. I get excited as I ever did when I see that black man on Air Force One. But I won't settle for symbolism, and our President's record should be open…” quote by Julianne Malveaux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dd0/julianne-malveaux-8775_air_as-i-write-in-the-book-i-do-not-regret-e_333587.jpg)
![“Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding war weapons in cities, as opposed to more community policing, is not the solution.” quote by Julianne Malveaux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ebb/julianne-malveaux-8775_barack_obviously-these-conditions-violence-pove_360148.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Julianne Malveaux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7d2/julianne-malveaux-8775_black_i-hope-his-wife-feeds-him-clarence-thoma_366007.jpg)
![“I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes]” quote by Bill Hicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3d2/bill-hicks-970_america_i-ll-smoke-i-ll-cough-i-ll-get-the-tumor_655.jpg)
