Quotes by Angela Rye - Page 1

Do you think it's a good idea to be sarcastic about slavery?
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Sarcastic
Slavery
Good Idea
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I am not interested in trying to convince and change the mind of a bigot.
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Convince
Not Interested
Bigot
Interested
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There's nothing new under the sun. We talk about the same things all the time on air.
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Air
Nothing New
Sun
Same Things
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Read things to not just know what's going on, but see it from different varying viewpoints.
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Viewpoints
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This country is not going to progress if we can't have decent civil conversations and be respectful to one another.
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Decent
Respectful
Civil
Conversations
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I am tired of people telling me that black people are beneath a standard when we have to be twice as good all the time.
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Tired
Time Good I Am
Twice
Time Good Black
Beneath
Standard
Telling
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Ben Carson said black people worked for less. I have breaking news: we built this joint for free. We didn't build it for less.
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Black
News
Said
Build
Free
Ben
Less
Breaking
Joint
Worked
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Not only did I always know I was black, I always knew we were and are beautiful, culturally rich, and creators of everything from the sciences to the arts.
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Black
Rich
Arts
Did
Creators
Sciences
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I never had a moment of realization about my blackness - I just was. Blackness was a central thread of my experience as a child and as an adolescent, as it is now that I'm an adult.
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Blackness
Realization
Thread
Adult
Adolescent
Central
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Whether it's freedom to express, freedom to live, freedom to earn, freedom to thrive, freedom to learn, whatever it is, I want to make sure that I'm a part of these spaces and opening doors.
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Doors
Opening
Thrive
Sure
Part
Earn
Whatever
Express
Learn
Spaces
Whether
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If I can, in any way, give people the courage to say, 'Actually, no, the nonsense stops right here,' then I want to be a part of doing that. Especially if that means that our folks will be more free.
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Courage
Folks
Nonsense
Free People Will
Stops
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Working with BET always provides a reminder of why I began to do this work. It is essential that we have platforms where we can discuss our politics, our challenges, and our culture through our respective lenses.
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Lenses
Platforms
Bet
Began
Politics Work Always
Discuss
Working
Essential
Provides
Reminder
Respective
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If our culture is so often readily and easily appropriated, imagine what happens when we embrace our full blackness and know that our contributions are just as important to the shaping of the country and, more broadly, the world.
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Blackness
Embrace
Imagine
Full
Contributions
Easily
Often
Readily
Shaping
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I grew up always thinking that fighting for justice was our obligation, whether that's giving your voice to something, serving as a verbal advocate for someone, or physically being in spaces or occupying space to make and create change.
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Change
Space
Fighting
Giving
Grew
Obligation
Serving
Thinking
Voice
Change Thinking Always
Physically
Advocate
Create
Occupying
Spaces
Verbal
Whether
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Whether you want to do a letter-writing campaign or a march or start a social media hashtag - whatever it is - know that there are people out there that are thinking exactly like you're thinking and are also afraid to take that next and very important step.
Angela Rye /
March
Media
Social Media
Afraid
Campaign
Exactly
Important Step
Step
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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.
Angela Rye /
Activist
Angela
Felt
Oppressed
Party
Resistance
Scholar
Strategic
Tandem
Well Known
Work Fight Me
Davis
Work Me Father
Named
Constantly
Call
Fight
Engage
Panther
Purposeful
Reminded
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I am so proud to be black. I am, nevertheless, tired of the oppression. We need to develop and support a cohesive black agenda. We need to do what leaders have suggested since slavery. We need to recognize that while we are not monolithic, there is power in embracing a common agenda.
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Nevertheless
Oppression
Slavery
Tired
Agenda
Cohesive
Develop
Embracing
Recognize
Suggested
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