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Stacey Abrams
American
Politician
Born:
Dec 9
,
1973
About
How
Life
Parents
People
You
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My mother grew up in abject poverty in Mississippi, an elementary school dropout. Yet, with the support of women around her, she returned to school and graduated as class valedictorian - the only one of her seven siblings to finish high school. She became a librarian and then a United Methodist minister.
Stacey Abrams
Class
Women
School
Mother
Poverty
Seven
Librarian
High
Minister
Abject
High School
Finish
Only
Support
Mississippi
She
Returned
Became
Around
Methodist
Up
Graduated
Grew
Then
Elementary
Elementary School
United
Her
Sibling
While my parents both worked full-time, we still grappled with the scourge of working-class poverty. But my entrepreneurial mother used her research skills to consult. And, along with my dad, she even ran a soul food restaurant for my great-aunt.
Stacey Abrams
Food
Soul
Mother
Parents
Poverty
Research
Ran
Restaurant
Both
Consult
Entrepreneurial
Along
She
Still
Scourge
While
Worked
Skills
Used
Working-Class
Full-Time
Even
Dad
Her
'First things first' might be a cliche, but it's a useful one that means prioritizing what matters most to you and believing there is no wrong answer. When it comes to figuring this out for yourself, the careful binary of work or life entirely misses the point.
Stacey Abrams
Life
Work
You
Yourself
Binary
First
Matters
Out
Entirely
Point
Wrong
Misses
Most
Cliche
First Things
Answer
Might
Means
Useful
Figuring
Believing
Things
Careful
Georgians understand obligation, love of family, and payment plans.
Stacey Abrams
Love
Family
Obligation
Understand
Georgian
Plans
Payment
Progress is possible, but it is fragile - and across our country, the battles for our most basic civil rights rage on.
Stacey Abrams
Rights
Progress
Country
Rage
Our
Battles
Possible
Civil
Civil Rights
Most
Across
Basic
Fragile
Clean energy jobs can exist across the state and create micro-economies to support struggling communities. Local governments can use advanced energy to retrain workers and create local jobs, and the positive economic impacts can remain local.
Stacey Abrams
Positive
Energy
State
Local
Local Governments
Jobs
Impacts
Economic
Struggling
Remain
Clean
Clean Energy
Advanced
Support
Exist
Governments
Create
Workers
Across
Use
Communities
Hydro, wind, solar, and biomass energy have economic impact across the state and, with collaboration and focus, can become engines of prosperity for more Georgians.
Stacey Abrams
Prosperity
Solar
Focus
Wind
Become
Energy
State
Collaboration
Impact
More
Economic
Georgian
Across
Engines
Confederate monuments belong in museums where we can study and reflect on that terrible history, not in places of honor across our state.
Stacey Abrams
History
Honor
Reflect
Confederate
State
Our
Monuments
Study
Terrible
Where
Places
Across
Belong
Museums
When I began writing novels, I read Aristotle to learn how to perfect structure, Pearl Cleage to sustain tension, and Nora Roberts for characterization.
Stacey Abrams
Writing
Characterization
Structure
Perfect
Aristotle
Tension
Roberts
Learn
Read
How
Began
Sustain
Novels
Pearl
I'm going to continue to do the work we're doing on voter suppression, supporting the work that's being done by Fair Count, ensuring a fair Census count.
Stacey Abrams
Work
Ensuring
Count
Supporting
Voter
Fair
Suppression
Doing
Continue
Done
Going
Being
Census
Being Done
The consequences for failure are very different if you're a woman or a person of color than they are if you're a guy. If you're a guy who makes a mistake, you get a second chance. Often, for those of us who are outsiders, we make a mistake, and that's the end of the conversation.
Stacey Abrams
Failure
You
Conversation
Woman
Mistake
Second Chance
Consequences
Those
Guy
Color
Outsiders
Make
Makes
End
Very
Than
Person
Get
Often
Different
Us
Who
Second
Chance
My parents never ceased to struggle, but in witnessing their lives, I learned more about natural industry and leadership than in any classroom.
Stacey Abrams
Leadership
Struggle
Natural
Parents
About
Classroom
More
Never
Industry
Learned
Witnessing
Than
Any
Lives
Money dictates nearly step of social mobility from the very first moments of life. How much our parents make often determines whether we go to college. It affects the jobs we get offered and the ones we can afford to take.
Stacey Abrams
Life
Money
College
Parents
First
Our
Jobs
Determines
Take
Step
Make
How
How Much
Go
Affects
Mobility
Very
Dictates
Offered
Afford
Get
Often
Whether
Social
Much
Moments
Nearly
I got into my first fight, Democrat versus Republican, in second grade. I won.
Stacey Abrams
Fight
First
Democrat
Got
Versus
Won
Grade
Republican
Second
In Georgia and around the country, people are striving for a middle class where a salary truly equals economic security. But instead, families' hopes are being crushed by Republican leadership that ignores real life or just doesn't understand it.
Stacey Abrams
Life
Leadership
Class
People
Country
Crushed
Real Life
Striving
Security
Hopes
Economic
Economic Security
Instead
Equals
Around
Understand
Real
Salary
Truly
Georgia
Families
Just
Middle
Being
Where
Middle Class
Republican
Ignores
The basis for sustainable progress is legal protections grounded in an awareness of how identity has been used to deny opportunity.
Stacey Abrams
Legal
Progress
Opportunity
Awareness
Has-Been
Identity
How
Been
Deny
Sustainable
Used
Grounded
Basis
Antiabortion rules disproportionately harm women of color and low-income women of every ethnicity, affecting their economic capacity and threatening their very lives.
Stacey Abrams
Women
Every
Rules
Threatening
Economic
Color
Affecting
Very
Capacity
Low-Income
Ethnicity
Lives
Disproportionately
Harm
I do not believe in taking jobs just because the job is available. You have to want to do that job, and you should plan to be there for a while.
Stacey Abrams
You
Job
Believe
Jobs
Taking
Because
Just
Just Because
Want
While
Available
Plan
Should
As a writer and former elected official, I believe in the power of words.
Stacey Abrams
Words
Power
Believe
Writer
Official
Former
Elected
We must use words to uplift and include. We can use our words to fight back against oppression and hate. But we must also channel our words into action.
Stacey Abrams
Fight
Hate
Oppression
Words
Action
Channel
Back
Our
Must
Also
Uplift
Against
Use
Include
To make a good decision, you actually need to think about it, the contours and the consequences.
Stacey Abrams
Good
You
Decision
Think
Consequences
About
Make
Actually
Need
I like solving problems that seem intractable. That's how I thrive.
Stacey Abrams
Problems
Thrive
Intractable
Solving
Seem
Like
How
Regardless of their parent's income or zip code, every child in Georgia deserves access to a high-quality, affordable education.
Stacey Abrams
Education
Every
Parent
High-Quality
Access
Georgia
Child
Affordable
Regardless
Code
Income
Deserves
Zip
We cannot expect systemic success when our teachers are underpaid and under-resourced, or when they split time being caretakers and counselors for our children as well.
Stacey Abrams
Success
Time
Caretakers
Our
We Cannot
Systemic
Counselors
Split
Well
Underpaid
Expect
Being
Children
Cannot
Teachers
Writing fueled me, and my task was to make it fit into my life. I practiced my trade as an attorney, and on weekends and holidays, I typed away. I assumed a nom de plume, Selena Montgomery, to separate my fiction from more academic publications.
Stacey Abrams
Life
Me
Writing
My Life
Assumed
Typed
Montgomery
More
Weekends
Attorney
Academic
Make
Practiced
Trade
Fit
Task
Fiction
Holidays
Fueled
Separate
Publications
Away
I'm proud to be a member of the creative class, particularly here in Atlanta where the entertainment and creative industries form such an integral part of our economy, our culture, and our community.
Stacey Abrams
Entertainment
Class
Creative
Culture
Community
Our
Our Community
Member
Atlanta
Part
Economy
Particularly
Industries
Proud
Integral
Integral Part
Where
Form
Here
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