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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.

Assata Shakur

When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Buy Children Joke Water
No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Education Freedom Hero History Knowledge Teaching
I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Cloud Execpt Try
I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Declare Face Heartless Politics Poverty Property Prosperity Protect Robot Smile
Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Consicious Help Hip Hop People Politics Powerful Social Weapon Young
If you’re deaf, dumb, and blind to what’s happening in the world, you’re under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what’s happening and you don’t do anything but sit on your ass, then you’re nothing but a punk.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Blind Deaf Dumb Obligation World
I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Believe Birth Fire Home Live Love Sailor Ship Sweat Truth
If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Air Commitment Design Earth Filter Gas Mask Save
When you go through all your life processing and abusing your hair so it will look like the hair of another race of people then you are making a statement and the statement is clear.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Abuse Hairs Life People Process Race Statement
Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is – never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Choose Enemy Fools
I hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world where it was unnecessary.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Born Hate Honesty Struggle Unnecessary War World
We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Age Community Enemy Fools Ideas Teaching
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Appeal Freedom History Moral Oppress People Sense World
The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Believe Business Planning Practice
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Oppression Resistance
Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Afford Gift Luxury Mind Peace Rare Rebel Sleep Spirit

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