Politics Quotes

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way.

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.