Angela Davis Quotes

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

Angela Davis

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• I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Career
  • Movies
  • Divorce

• Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • World
  • Adventure

• Success is not two cars or a swimming pool. It's the approval of your peers.

  

  Peter Finch
  • Success
  • Pool
  • Swimming

• You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Love
  • Fact
  • Asking

• The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

  

  B. W. Powe

• Our government has to be held accountable for enforcing the law. Tamir Rice, the fact that they could exonerate that police person [who killed him], and Tamir's family was charged for the ambulance to take him [to the hospital]. It's inhumane.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Family
  • Law
  • Government

• Let the love of Allah heal you. And free you.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Free

• George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Guy

• Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.

  

  Plato
  • God
  • Men
  • Sound Sense

• Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Opinions

• To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • God
  • Philosopher
  • Live Alone

• Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats?

  

  William Powell
  • Fool
  • Dumb
  • Democrat

• For me with art and all that stuff - I like abstraction. I like contortion. I mean, it's still truth. But it's truth through the center of the individual. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's fallacies or falsehoods. It just happens to be one perception of what's happening.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Mean

• Sometimes having no script, having no idea what is going to happen next, having no map, might be the way to go. Because life just happens, and when it does, how you handle it will teach you more about who you are than any class or test ever can. The best preparation for the rest of your life is, maybe, no preparation at all. Dive right in. Make mistakes. Break a few rules. Wing it.

  

  Valerie Thomas
  • Teach
  • Mistakes
  • Life is

• Praying as a public function, particularly when led by a clergyman, is a vulgar display of an exclusively personal matter.

  

  Joseph Lewis
  • Matter
  • Praying
  • Function

• I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Function
  • Prisons
  • Abolish