Angela Davis Quotes
I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle that gets projected into commodities like kente cloth for example on the one hand and images like the Million Man March.
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My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.
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I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
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Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.
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I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
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One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.
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Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
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I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
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I have been talking to a lot of people who don't normally vote Democratic - independents and Republicans. They have been voting for Democrats because they think it's important to change the direction America is going.
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It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.
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Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
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It's the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It's equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can.
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A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.
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It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
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At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important.
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I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world.
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Making labor less expensive helps firms hire people.
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I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle that gets projected into commodities like kente cloth for example on the one hand and images like the Million Man March.
