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Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice.

Angela Davis

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Angela Davis
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 29
Autobiographer
Feminist
Human Rights Activist
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Political Activist
Politician
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University Teacher
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Birmingham
Alabama
Angela Yvonne Davis
Angela Y. Davis
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