I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
ASSATA SHAKURI believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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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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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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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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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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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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I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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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.
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