Angela Y. Davis

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January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama, The United States

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Women & Gender Studies, Politics, Biographies & Memoirs

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Books by Angela Y. Davis

Average rating: 4.24 · 3592 ratings · 253 reviews · 45 distinct works

	Women, Race, & Class 428 avg rating — 1332 ratings — published 1981 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Angela Davis--An Autobiography 430 avg rating — 824 ratings — published 1974 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Are Prisons Obsolete? 426 avg rating — 587 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday 409 avg rating — 255 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Women, Culture & Politics 405 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture and Empire: Interviews with Angela Y. Davis 415 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Angela Y. Davis Reader by Angela Y. Davis, Joy James (Editor) 446 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance 416 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1971 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Prison Industrial Complex 438 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Autobiografia Di Una Rivoluzionaria by Angela Y. Davis, E. Brambilla (Translator) 375 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1975 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.”
― Angela Y. Davis

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“The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?”
― Angela Y. Davis

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“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.”
― Angela Y. Davis

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