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. Angela Rye Read Quote
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. Angela Rye Read Quote
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. Angela Rye Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Angela Rye Read Quote
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. Angela Rye Read Quote
This country is not going to progress if we can’t have decent civil conversations and be respectful to one another. Angela Rye Read Quote
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. Angela Rye Read Quote
