Angela Davis Quotes
We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children of Africa, as the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and thereby ignore the Middle Passage and centuries of enforced servitude in the Americas. Although some of us might indeed be the descendants of African royalty, most of us are probably descendants of their subjects, the daughters and sons of African peasants or workers.
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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I started out doing musicals.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing is completely free improvisation ('composing in real time') with nothing predetermined. I've had a lot of experience playing many different kinds of music and several different instruments, and since I tend not to waste anything, it all shows up somewhere in the music I'm playing now.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Maybe you and I have to learn how to live with what we saw. With what we know.
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You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
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We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children of Africa, as the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and thereby ignore the Middle Passage and centuries of enforced servitude in the Americas. Although some of us might indeed be the descendants of African royalty, most of us are probably descendants of their subjects, the daughters and sons of African peasants or workers.
