I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
ASSATA SHAKUR
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.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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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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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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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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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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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If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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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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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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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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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I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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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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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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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.
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