As soon as I got out of jail, as soon as my trial was over, first of all, during the time I was in jail, there was an organization called the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, and I insisted that it be called National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners.

Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world.

We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.