Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.
Angela DavisNo march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
Angela DavisWe 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 DavisObviously there are some organizations that go out on the street and say we want an end to the capitalist system. But obviously that is not going to happen as a result of just assuming that stance.
Angela DavisYou have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
Angela DavisWe donโt go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object - we donโt think about the relations that that object embodies - and were important to the production of that object whether itโs 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