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Angela Rye Quotes

My father constantly reminded me that he named me after Angela Yvonne Davis, a scholar and activist who was well known for her work in tandem with the Black Panther Party. That felt like a purposeful, beckoning call to engage in strategic resistance and to fight for the oppressed.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 26, 1979

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Work Father Fight Me Black Party

There's more than enough in the world I am currently writing about to last for several lifetimes of writing.

I Am Writing World Enough More Last

Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

Life Children Acting First Whole

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.

Relationship Think You Real Tension

I'm not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. There's good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.

Work Good Good Work You Know Want

I want young people to look at me and go, 'Damn, I want to be like that brother. He sharp, he be on point. He represent black people.' I want to make the life of the mind sexy.

Michael Eric Dyson

Life Brother People Mind Me Sexy

I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.

Stephenie Meyer

Experience World Book Three Want

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

People Ego Reality You Hug Actor

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

Success Failure School People Young

When Clinton first appeared on the national stage back in 1992, the young wife of the Arkansas governor running for president, she kept her natural-brown hair off her face with a headband.

Wife Hair Face Back Young She

There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.

Christopher Lee

Speak Said Say Movies First Years

What I have learned over hundreds of campaigns is if you have lost voters who have supported you in the past, you can get them back. If you never had them, it is a very difficult sell.

Past You Back I Have Learned Lost

I've always been the most vocal person socially about things that I feel are important.

Feel Person Important Always Things

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