Angela Davis Quotes
I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.
Quotes to Explore
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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Badminton is not a popular sport in India.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
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I've learned never say never.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I write music every day.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
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I try to live my life, do what I want, and just let everything else follow along.
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As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.
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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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I don't have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes.
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.
