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This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

~Angela Bassett

Topics: About Allow America Black Career Celluloid Enslave Even Ever Film Free Going Images Last Law Me Paper People See Slaves Though Were Woman You

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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

Topics: Affiliation Against American Black Bound Fight Flow Imperialism Liberation Oppressed Over Participation People Political Politics Struggle Up Woman World

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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

~Angela Davis

Topics: Black Bring First First Place Increase Less Paying Place Profits Racism Used Wealthy Weapon Work Workers

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Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.

~Angela Davis

Topics: Black Couple Decades Evolved Increasing Itself Labor Labor Movement Last Leadership Look Movement Now Numbers Over People See Today True Way Which Who

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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 the society any longer.

~Angela Davis

Topics: Any Been Black Course Deal Great Great Deal Last Laws Longer Over People Progress Society Well Within Years

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In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.

~Angela Davis

Topics: Always Been Black Certain Certain Extent Class Economic Emancipation Extent Inevitable Liberation Means Middle Middle Class People Quest Rise Sense Which Would

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What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

~Angela Davis

Topics: Before Between Black Class Connection Different Ever Impoverished Increasing Lack Middle Middle Class More Numbers People Political Than Think Today Who I Think

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That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.

~Angela Davis

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And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.

~Angela Davis

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Growing up in Mississippi - a state that historically was a place of racial injustice, inequality and oppression - gave me the unique opportunity to experience first-hand the evolution of the civil rights movement through the eyes of my parents, grandparents, and the black elders of our community.

~Angela Mcglowan

Topics: Black Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Community Elders Evolution Experience Eyes Gave Grandparents Growing Growing Up Historically Inequality Injustice Me Mississippi Movement Opportunity Oppression Our Our Community Parents Place Racial Rights Rights Movement State Through Unique Up

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