Angela Davis Quotes

I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.

Angela Davis

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• Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • World
  • Country
  • Game

• Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Own
  • Over
  • His

• When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Look
  • Sexy
  • Elephant

• Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Forget
  • Greatest
  • Thieves

• I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Friends
  • Wedding
  • Photographer

• Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.

  

  Rabindranath Maharaj
  • Home
  • City
  • Internet

• I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • World
  • Want
  • Aunt

• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Never
  • Air
  • Before

• Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Sexuality
  • Biggest
  • Who

• I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Done
  • Eating
  • Rolling Stones

• In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Being
  • Nation
  • Unfortunate

• I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.

  

  Paige Butcher
  • People
  • Love
  • Charity

• I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

  

  Yvonne Craig
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Family
  • Like
  • Others

• No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.

  

  Abdul Qadeer Khan
  • Money
  • Nation
  • Grateful

• I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.

  

  Valerie June
  • Enjoy
  • Playing
  • Audiences

• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Questions

• You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • World
  • Music
  • Color

• Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Vulnerability

• I promise you, every insurgent, freedom fighter, and stray gunman in Iraq who we arrested knew the ropes, knew that the way out was to announce he had been tortured by the Americans, ill treated, or prevented from reading the Koran or eating his breakfast or watching the television.

  

  Marcus Luttrell
  • Freedom
  • Reading
  • Promise

• I demand that every Storm Troop Leader, just as every political leader, should be conscious of the fact that his behavior and conduct must be exemplary. . . . I wish every mother to give her son to The Party without fearing that he may be ruined morally. . . . Storm Troop Leaders who behave unworthily in public are to be mercilessly removed.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Party
  • Leader
  • Behavior

• ... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Survive
  • Sailing
  • Constitutions

• Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Believe
  • Africa
  • Begins

• I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Believe
  • Feminist
  • Contradiction