I don’t have to live up to that Superwoman myth. I can cry and be human and lean on people who take care of me. That can be very liberating.
ASSATA SHAKURI realized that I was connected to Africa.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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.
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The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.
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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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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.
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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
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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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Black people will never be free unless black women participate in every aspect of our struggle, on every level of our struggle.
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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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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.
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