Angela Davis Quotes

I was gifted with a life that was full of adventure. I've always believed, if you're gifted, that it's incumbent not to think about giving something back.

I don't feel I owe anyone anything.

People are paying to see me. You've got to give something back.

There's certain people that you owe it to, for the things they've done for you.

I have to live up to the love I am receiving.

What's the point of blowing up if you can't give back to the people who helped you blow up?

I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it.

You've got to give something back. You can't just sit there.

I wouldn't have become an engineer, I wouldn't have done what I did, had a hand not been held out to me. I have to remember who helped me when I needed help. The people of Jamaica helped me. I can't forget that. I would be ungrateful if I forgot.

That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.

At the end of the day, you either want or you don't want to know about it. It's a mercy thing - you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to.

If you want people to support you, then you have to support them. You have to think long about what you did for people who voted for you, made phone calls for you, who went door to door for you.

Over a period of time, if you have a successful show, then you have a devoted audience. I feel you owe something to them. That goes for everybody - writers, camera operators, actors, studio executives, etc. Sadly, I've realized it's a responsibility that very few people live up to.

As I've always said, the way New Yorkers back us we have to produce for them.

It is not polite to receive a favor without returning it.

A favor to come is better than a hundred received.

Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.

Where is the man who owes nothing to the land in which he lives?

What I was raised with in terms of a call to service was just a sense that I was lucky.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

I kept thinking that the audience had gone to so much trouble, working their schedules to be there. They had arranged for babysitters and even traveled in from out of town. Oh, how could I not be there for them?

From where I came from, the way I was raised, when somebody does something for you, you always want to give something back to them.

I owe my family first, but I also have others around me that I have to perform for.