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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 Shakur

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
Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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Black Condition Creation Drop Moon Oppression Racism Revolution Shape
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
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
The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Believe Business Planning Practice
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
I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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Cloud Execpt Try
If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
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Air Commitment Design Earth Filter Gas Mask Save
Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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Incomplete Motivational Practice Theory
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.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Attention Capable Effective Method Peace People Protest Reality
Every 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.
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Change Movement Racism Social
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 believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Believe Death Life
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
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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Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Form Promotion Racism Reason

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.

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