Assata Shakur Quotes - Page 2

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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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  People, Care, Cry

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• Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford.

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  Sleep, Luxury, Peaceful

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• Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires. As long as we expect amerika's schools to educate us, we will remain ignorant.

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  School, Skills, Long

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.196, Zed Books

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• If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them.

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  Nike, Air, Filters

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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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  Ideas, Enemy, Age

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.167, Zed Books

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• I advocate revolutionary changes...an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime, then I am totally guilty

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  Political, Racist, Revolutionary

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• Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never been free. I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.

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  Vision, Causes, Honest

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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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  Reality, People, Peaceful

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• We have to have a vision of the world we want to make in 100 years. And maybe when we have that vision, when we convince enough people that that is a realistic vision, and that the opposite vision is basically that if we don't do something in this 100 years, a hundred years from now this world is gonna be so destroyed, so raped and ravished that we won't HAVE much of a world to save.

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  Years, Opposites, People

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• i Believe In The Fire Of Love And The Sweat Of Truth

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  Believe, Fire, Sweat

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• It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or her disposal. Not to engage in physical resistance, armed resistance to oppression, is to serve the interests of the oppressor; no more, no less. There are no exceptions to the rule, no easy out.

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  Mean, Exception To The Rule, Resistance

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• It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

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  Sake, Given, Idealism

  Assata Shakur (2016). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.9, Zed Books Ltd.

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• Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.

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  Book, College, Practice

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• To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

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  Slave

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.277, Zed Books

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• Any Black person in amerika [sic], if they are being honest with themselves, have got to come to the conclusion that they don't know what it feels like to be free. We aren't free politically, economically, or socially. We have very little power over what happens in our lives. In fact, a Black person isn't free to walk down the street. Walk down the wrong street, in the wrong neighborhood at night, and you know what happens.

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  Night, Black, Littles

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• At this time I'd like to say a few words especially to my sisters: SISTERS. 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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  Struggle, People, Black

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• People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.

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  Thinking, People, Tolerance

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.277, Zed Books

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• Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more.

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  Warrior, Oppression, Has Beens

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• I think that in order to struggle you have to be creative. In my life, creativity has been something that has sustained me; it awoke my spiritual struggle.

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  Spiritual, Struggle, Creativity

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• The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise

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  Running, Xenophobia, Color

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• I think that spirituality is important for all people to develop. I don't mean there necessarily has to be a religious aspect to spirituality. Some people are spiritual in a religious way, other people are spiritual in their work and in their art and in their treatment of other people.

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  Spiritual, Religious, Art

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• I realized that I was connected to Africa. I wasn't just a Colored girl. I was part of a whole world that wanted a better life. I'm part of a majority and not a minority. My life has been a life of growth. If you're not growing, you're not going to understand real love. If you're not reaching out to help others then you're shrinking. My life has been active. I'm not a spectator

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  Girl, Real, Helping Others

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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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  Racism, Reason, Imperialism

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• I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously.

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  Taken, Thinking, Serious

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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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  Hair, Race, People

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.189, Zed Books

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