I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing. — 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
I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object - we don’t think about the relations… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I don't know whether the movement crashed as a result of the overwhelming character of the institutions we set out to change.… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has… — 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
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
I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the… — 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
I don't think it's necessary to feel guilty. Because I know that I'm still doing the work that is going to help… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we… — 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 we need to insist on a certain responsibility, which people have - particularly those who have made it into the… — 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
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
Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner, we tend… — 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
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
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing. — 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 people within… — 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 to that… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
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 Image
We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently. — 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 organization, which… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
