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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.

Assata Shakur

I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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Connection Country Realize
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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Declare Face Heartless Politics Poverty Property Prosperity Protect Robot Smile
This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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Earth Place Planet Vulnerable Wonderful
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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Change Construction Love Ourselves System Weapon
I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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Cloud Execpt Try
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.
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Oppression Resistance
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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Appeal Freedom History Moral Oppress People Sense World
Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is – never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.
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Choose Enemy Fools
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.
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Abuse Hairs Life People Process Race Statement
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.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Liberty Man Nation Reaction Revolution Struggle Woman
Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
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Consicious Help Hip Hop People Politics Powerful Social Weapon Young
We’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 SHAKUR

Easy Expose Live People Suck Trick World
Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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Action Dreams Motivational Opposite Reality
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
Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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Incomplete Motivational Practice Theory

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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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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