We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy… the economies that are going… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
We cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
It doesn't surprise me that aspect of the black nationalist movement, the cultural side, has triumphed because that is the aspect of… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I think it's important for us to recognize that although historically black communities have been very progressive with respect to issues of… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing. — Angela Davis Copy Share
Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within… — Angela Davis Copy Share
Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy… the economies that are going to that… — Angela Davis Copy Share
I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the… — Angela Davis Copy Share
You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently. — Angela Davis Copy Share
As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which… — Angela Davis Copy Share
There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole… — Angela Davis Copy Share
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… — Angela Davis Copy Share
Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something. — Angela Davis Copy Share
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the… — Angela Davis Copy Share
It doesn't surprise me that aspect of the black nationalist movement, the cultural side, has triumphed because that is the aspect of the movement… — Angela Davis Copy Share
