Angela Davis Quotes
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.
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Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.
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If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack,
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The lack of trust in supranational entities and cosmopolitan elite creates a fertile ground for tribalist belongings and reactionary politics.
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Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
