We are pregnant with freedom.
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.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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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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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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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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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.
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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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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.
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Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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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.
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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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No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.
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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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