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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.

Assata Shakur

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Oppression Resistance
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
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
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
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
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
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
Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Action Dreams Motivational Opposite Reality
The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Believe Business Planning Practice
I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Believe Death Life
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.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Change Construction Love Ourselves System Weapon
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.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Education Freedom Hero History Knowledge Teaching
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
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.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Abuse Hairs Life People Process Race Statement
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Oppression Resistance
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

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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