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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
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Angela Davis
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 29
Autobiographer
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Birmingham
Alabama
Angela Yvonne Davis
Angela Y. Davis
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