Angela Davis Quotes
We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is much more complicated today than it ever was.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.
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There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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I think of 'Mommy' as very simplistic or not simplistic, but I wish for the style to actually work with what you see onscreen and what you feel in that very moment. I hope we did not disrespect the characters by being too flamboyant when it's not necessary.
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In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.
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If you're playing a cop in a modern film, you don't have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There's a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.
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When I really need it, talking is the best way to deal with emotional pain.
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I would much rather meet them and deal with them now. That's the way I feel about it. The only thing it does for me is like, bring 'em on. I don't really care. And so if my team takes that same attitude, I don't care who we play and when we play.
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I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.
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We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is much more complicated today than it ever was.
