"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

#Mean Quotes #Class Quotes #People Quotes

“Just remember that if you're not working at your game to the utmost of your ability, there will be someone out there somewhere with equal ability who is. And one day you'll play each other, and he'll have the advantage.”
“It was a sort of peace I have rarely enjoyed since. As if we were the only two souls on earthâ€”all of nature ours to enjoy. I wondered why a creator who had dreamt such beauty would have slandered it with such evil. Such grief. Why He had not been content to leave it unspoilt. I still wonder.”
“Lifeâ€™s a marathon, not a sprint.”
“The nature of my work is my subjectivity meshed with other people's subjectivity. So there's a correspondence with that... Even if you write about me, it will reflect on you; everything is a kind of weird collaboration.”
“You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything”
“More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people.”
“Cameras have really made people question the police. People, especially white people, are saying, 'Oh my God, we had no idea.'”
“Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.”

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