Quote

Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.

Angela Davis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Angela Davis
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 29
Autobiographer
Feminist
Human Rights Activist
Philosopher
Political Activist
Politician
Teacher
University Teacher
Writer
Birmingham
Alabama
Angela Yvonne Davis
Angela Y. Davis
Adjectives
Exhausting
Capture
Perfectly
Invisible
Uncreative
Nature
Unproductive
Repetitive
Housework

More quotes by Angela Davis

Image
Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy.... the economies that are going to that apparently will produce some kind of material gain for them.
Angela Davis
Image
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
Angela Davis
Image
I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the US. Black trade unionists played a really important role in developing this US anti-apartheid movement.
Angela Davis
Image
It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.
Angela Davis
Image
When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.
Angela Davis
Image
Our leaders were assassinated, one of the things I was reading today was - 28 Panthers were killed by the police but 300 Black Panthers were killed by other Panthers just within - internecine warfare. It just began to seem like we were in an impossible task given what we were facing.
Angela Davis
Image
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
Angela Davis
Image
Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.
Angela Davis
Image
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
Angela Davis
Image
I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.
Angela Davis
Image
We 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 Davis
Image
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
Angela Davis
Image
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
Angela Davis
Image
Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.
Angela Davis
Image
We are never assured of justice without a fight.
Angela Davis
Image
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
Angela Davis
Image
The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
Angela Davis
Image
Obviously 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 Davis
Image
Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'
Angela Davis
Image
I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us.
Angela Davis