Angela Davis Quotes
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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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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When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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We just here to do our job.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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There are certain things women are better at than men.
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Respect is the key determinant of high performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform.
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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How many people can you claim truly care about you? I mean, not just the people in your life who are fun to hang out with, not just the people who you love and trust. But people who feel good when you are happy and successful, feel bad when you are hurt or going through a hard time, people who would walk away from their lives for a little while to help you with yours?
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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I wanted to do a show about a family that is absolutely black. Because as Du Bois has shown, we do have to live a double consciousness every day in the world. We have to walk our path and walk the mainstream path, and there's never really been a show that's talked about what that's like.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
