You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time. Angela Davis More Quotes by Angela Davis More Quotes From Angela Davis 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 feminist sides believe Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.' Angela Davis radical-islam roots mean We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. Angela Davis freedom knows We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is much more complicated today than it ever was. Angela Davis impact struggle thinking Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been. Angela Davis kind racism time We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism. Angela Davis has-beens racism should Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live. Angela Davis progressive-society people art To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women. Angela Davis function men Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime. Angela Davis black-history-month serious-things struggle It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo. Angela Davis generations events personality It is important not only to have the awareness and to feel impelled to become involved, it's important that there be a forum out there to which one can relate, an organization- a movement. Angela Davis movement important organization As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism. Angela Davis fighting struggle people My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we can go about eradicating some of the misery in this world, then it is not worth the name of philosophy. I think Socrates made a very profound statement when he asserted that the raison d'etre of philosophy is to teach us proper living. In this day and age 'proper living' means liberation from the urgent problems of poverty, economic necessity and indoctrination, mental oppression. Angela Davis philosophy mean thinking What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. Angela Davis political humor country I think it's important for us to recognize that although historically black communities have been very progressive with respect to issues of race and with respect to struggles for racial equality, that does not necessarily translate into progressive positions on gender issues, progressive positions on issues of sexuality and in the latter 1990s we have to recognize the intersectionality, the interconnectedness of all of these institutions and attitudes. Angela Davis struggle attitude thinking It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals Angela Davis heroic individual essentials Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other. Angela Davis prison-population jail zoos We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object - we don’t think about the relations that that object embodies - and were important to the production of that object whether it’s our food or our clothes or our I-pads or all the materials we use to acquire an education at an institution like this. That would really be revolutionary to develop a habit of imagining the human relations and non human relations behind all of the objects that constitute our environment. Angela Davis ipads clothes thinking You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently. Angela Davis decent criticize people We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children of Africa, as the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and thereby ignore the Middle Passage and centuries of enforced servitude in the Americas. Although some of us might indeed be the descendants of African royalty, most of us are probably descendants of their subjects, the daughters and sons of African peasants or workers. Angela Davis daughter queens kings
