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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

Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is – never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Choose Enemy Fools
This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Earth Place Planet Vulnerable Wonderful
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
If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Air Commitment Design Earth Filter Gas Mask Save
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.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Duty Each Other Fight Freedom Lose Love Support Win
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.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Declare Face Heartless Politics Poverty Property Prosperity Protect Robot Smile
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 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
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
When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Buy Children Joke Water
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.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Growth Oppression People Slave Tolerance
Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford.
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Afford Gift Luxury Mind Peace Rare Rebel Sleep Spirit
Black people will never be free unless black women participate in every aspect of our struggle, on every level of our struggle.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Black Lives Matter Level Participation People Struggle Women Power
Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Black Condition Creation Drop Moon Oppression Racism Revolution Shape
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Oppression Resistance

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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