I realized that I was connected to Africa.
ASSATA SHAKURI realized that I was connected to Africa.
ASSATA SHAKURThe first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
ASSATA SHAKUREvery person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.
ASSATA SHAKURThe first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
ASSATA SHAKURWe 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.
ASSATA SHAKURThis planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
ASSATA SHAKUROnly the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
ASSATA SHAKURBlack people will never be free unless black women participate in every aspect of our struggle, on every level of our struggle.
ASSATA SHAKURWe’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 SHAKURI 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 SHAKURThe methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.
ASSATA SHAKURI 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 SHAKUROnly a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is – never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.
ASSATA SHAKURWe’re living in a very tricky world, and unless we become analytical and expose the tricknology, people will become sucked into that. It is very easy, it is very, very easy.
ASSATA SHAKURWe usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
ASSATA SHAKURImperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.
ASSATA SHAKUR