I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
ASSATA SHAKURWe usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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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.
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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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.
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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It’s not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.
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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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A revolutionary woman can’t have no reactionary man. If he’s not about liberation, if he’s not about struggle, if he ain’t about building a strong Black family, if he ain’t about building a strong Black nation, then he ain’t about nothing.
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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.
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