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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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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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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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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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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When you're acting and you need to cry, you want to put yourself in a position where you're trying not to cry, because that is generally what people try and do. They try to hold on to their emotions, they don't want to lose them.
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Injuries give you perspective. They teach you to cherish the moments that I might have taken for granted before.
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Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history.
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One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.
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I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.
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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.
