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 SHAKURWhen I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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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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If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
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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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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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We are pregnant with freedom.
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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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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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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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Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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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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I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.
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