If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
ASSATA SHAKURIf we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
ASSATA SHAKURBlack revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
ASSATA SHAKURBlack people will never be free unless black women participate in every aspect of our struggle, on every level of our struggle.
ASSATA SHAKURI 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 SHAKURThe first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
ASSATA SHAKURNobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
ASSATA SHAKUREvery 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.
ASSATA SHAKURIt 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 SHAKURWhen 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 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.
ASSATA SHAKURWhere there is oppression, there will be resistance.
ASSATA SHAKURDreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
ASSATA SHAKURTheory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
ASSATA SHAKURI believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
ASSATA SHAKUROnly a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is – never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.
ASSATA SHAKURThe 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