American - Politician | February 3, 1974 -
I have been really furious about the constant charges being lobbed against me about identity politics that, by the way, are only lobbed against women and candidates of color.
Ayanna Pressley
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I happen to be black and a woman and unapologetically proud to be both, but that is not the totality of my identity.
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We want Boston to be the safest bicycling city.
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I'm not naive. All politics is about identity, right? Neighborhood politics, cultural politics, issue politics. It's not as though I don't get that. It's just - it has to be, I think, tempered in a way that is for our overall advancement and not to our detriment or obliteration. When I say 'our,' I don't mean just communities of color.
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When I hear 'politics,' I hear 'relationships.'
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It's important that people see themselves mirrored in government.
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I am probably an outsider because I challenge conventional narratives about who should have a seat at the table.
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I've just kept going, like millions of people do every day, because life does not allow them to do anything else.
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I've not been a decisively re-elected city councilor and top vote-getter three times because I haven't done the work and because I don't work hard.
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Ultimately, we will never have a more inclusive and representative delegation - we will not change the complexion, the culture, or the representation - if we do not primary Democrats.
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I think culture is a very challenging thing to reverse.
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I'm an only child, so I don't come from a big family. But it has been my observation from friends who do come from big families that usually, when you have a family fight, on the back end you come out better and stronger for it.
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