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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

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Angela Davis
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 29
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.
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No 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.
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