Words matter. These are the best Maya Wiley Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I look forward to demonstrating the greatest integrity of fairness and independence that any arm of the city should have and does have.
Do you know how many women in a survey reported experiences of sexual harassment on the job? Eighty percent. It is so common. It’s normalized. And it’s an abuse of power.
When I’m in charge, you will never have to question whether anyone is listening, whether the mayor even wants the job. You will never have to ask yourself whether you matter. You will never have to wonder whether I’m in Iowa.
I, like many of the other women who made history and dared to step up to lead since the 2018 midterms, know we must all play a role in the battle for who we are and who we must be.
I think every leader has to be willing to examine their own biases.
Too often we forget our principles in order to hold onto power; I will always put principles first, not my own power.
For so many people in New York City, childcare and eldercare is a top-three cost of living.
Lots of people can manage. That’s not the question. It’s this: Can we reimagine? Knowing how government works is not the same as getting it to work transformationally.
Attacking the ability of black people to govern through specious claims that we are a danger to white people is nothing short of disgraceful.
We don’t have to agree on solutions to our problems or who is best positioned to lead us to them.
The Affordable Care Act’s contribution to longer and healthier lives is being overshadowed by the individual mandate question.
Citizen journalism and even our ethnic press could be harmed by big companies deciding where we can get our news.
Some will say I don’t sound like past mayors or look like them or think like them, and I say yes, I don’t – that is the point.
I was going to college. But to be, like, a psychologist, wanting to help people but also just kind of not being my parents.
The innovations we need at our systems level require an understanding of business, psychology, and policy, but doing it with a deep, deep understanding of how our decisions create barriers for fairness and opportunity for some people.
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.
When people are scared and traumatized, it’s important to listen to them.
Allowing the big dogs to create a toll lane for public education, public interest and government programming, and to make it more costly to sell products online, will be bad for Black women and our communities.
New York is such an amazing place. It’s a city that I’ve wanted to live in since I was a little girl, my brother and I both. We both live here now and we’ve lived here for decades. My kids were born here.
I think women are particularly open-minded, partly because we’re cultivated to be and also because we’re collaborative.
It’s absolutely true we have to pay attention to whether low-income people of any race are able to access quality, higher education.
We all need to be able to see a Doctor when we’re sick.
Lifting the veil of secrecy that shrouds police misconduct allegations would seem like an obvious democratic value. After all, if police work for the people, should they not be answerable to the people, as well? This is a basic tenet of good government.
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.
Police discipline certainly does occur; it just does not often lead to change.
Having grown up in a Black neighborhood, gone to a segregated Black public school that was overcrowded and underfunded, watched my neighbors be displaced when rents went up and they couldn’t afford to pay them – all this shaped my career.
So, I was in a segregated, all black, public elementary school until fourth grade, until my father died. And that’s when my mother transferred me to a private, predominantly white school and I saw both sides of the world at a very young age.
And if you want partnerships that focus on hard problems and real solutions, then pick a Black woman. Because that’s what we do every single day and in every single way.
So, the real question isn’t, in my view, whether someone can beat Trump in 2020. The question is can the Democrats start articulating a very clear message that articulates how people’s lives will be better, as a result of Democrats in power.
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.
I will work with the governor no matter who the governor is. And I will always be Maya Wiley when I do it. That means I will call it as I see it.
My daughter had a Howard Dean Beanie Baby and that didn’t help him. T-shirts don’t win elections.
Look, the Black community is diverse. We have generational divides. We have class divides. We have parts of the Black community that are fairly centrist, parts that are extremely activist.
When the opportunity came up to do social justice work for the New School in an academic setting, and still be able to support the mayor and be part of the de Blasio family, it was kind of a no-brainer for me.
In fact, black students with college degrees are twice as likely to be unemployed as white students with college degrees. So, to say there there is not an issue for black Americans and Latinos in terms of the opportunity that college is supposed to create would be wrong.
