Grace Lee Boggs Quotes


I think that's a very important part of what we need in this country, is that sense that we have lived through so many stages and that we are entering into a new stage where we could create something completely different.


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Boggs, Grace Lee. Interview by Bill Moyers. Bill Moyers Journal, PBS, 15 June 2007.

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Grace Lee Boggs
Grace Lee Boggs
  • Born: June 27, 1915
  • Died: October 5, 2015
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer, Social Activist, Philosopher, Feminist

Grace Lee Boggs was an American author, social activist, philosopher, and feminist. She is known for her years of political collaboration with C. L. R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya in the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1960s she and James Boggs, her husband of some forty years, took their own political direction. By 1998, she had written four books, including an autobiography. In 2011, still active at the age of 95, she wrote a fifth book, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, with Scott Kurashige and published by the University of California Press. She is regarded as a key figure in the Asian American Movement.