Racism cannot be separated from capitalism. Angela Davis More Quotes by Angela Davis More Quotes From Angela Davis Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework. Angela Davis invisible adjectives capture Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment. Angela Davis self men thinking I think it’s the right moment to talk about it because it is part of a revolutionary perspective - how can we not only discover more compassionate relations with human beings but how can we develop compassionate relations with the other creatures with whom we share this planet and that would mean challenging the whole capitalist industrial form of food production. Angela Davis perspective mean thinking Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do. Angela Davis wells courses sometimes Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice. Angela Davis political practice danger Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor--because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them ... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them. Angela Davis girl baby meaningful I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively. Angela Davis study philosophy thinking Our leaders were assassinated, one of the things I was reading today was - 28 Panthers were killed by the police but 300 Black Panthers were killed by other Panthers just within - internecine warfare. It just began to seem like we were in an impossible task given what we were facing. Angela Davis police leader reading I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing. Angela Davis black community thinking Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy.... the economies that are going to that apparently will produce some kind of material gain for them. Angela Davis black drug people There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice. Angela Davis ku-klux-klan racist justice Not only the brothers on the street but the middle class brothers are also identifying with the gangster rappers because of the extent to which this music circulates. It becomes possible for the - not only the young middle class men, but it becomes possible for young middle class white men and young men of other racial communities to identify with the misogyny of gangster rap. Angela Davis rap brother men in this society, dominated as it is by the profit-seeking ventures of monopoly corporations, health has been callously transformed into a commodity - a commodity that those with means are able to afford, but that is too often entirely beyond the reach of others. Angela Davis venture health mean The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so inured to its presence that they could not conceive of society without it. Within the history of the United States the system of slavery immediately comes to mind. Angela Davis challenges mind people I would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within the context of the globalization of capital. Angela Davis black important people I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers. Angela Davis individual saws particular 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 most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival. Angela Davis southern cities country I think we need to insist on a certain responsibility, which people have - particularly those who have made it into the ranks of the middle class because as [ Martin Luther] King said many years ago in a sense they have climbed out of the masses on the shoulders of their sisters and brothers and therefore, they do have some responsibility. Angela Davis brother responsibility kings You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now. Angela Davis attempting youth people I guess I would say first of all that we tend to go back to the 60s and we tend to see these struggles and these goals in a relatively static way. Angela Davis goal struggle way
