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I can't do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
Assata Shakur
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Assata Shakur
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 14
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Jamaica
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Joanne Deborah Byron
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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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Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.
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People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.
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Love is contraband in Hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars. But you, me, and tomorrow hold hands and make vows that struggle will multiply. The hacksaw has two blades. The shotgun has two barrels. We are pregnant with freedom. We are a conspiracy.
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We'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.
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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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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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I think it's really hard to plan if you don't believe you can implement those plans.
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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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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.
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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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The attitudes of many police organizations were extremely negative to the prospect of Rap, and many officials weren't afraid to say that they were against it. To them, Rappers were just criminals waiting to get caught.
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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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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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My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle.
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The US government's most acute fear is that other countries are going to follow the Cuban example. They want everybody to know that if you follow this example we will attack you in every way that we can.
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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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Cuba has its own moral system and priorities. That's what keeps it going, the belief that the country can control its own destiny.
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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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