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People come telling the truth. When I ask how thing are in the States, they don't give me the okeydoke. They say, Honey, things are hard. It reminds me I have to keep struggling.
Assata Shakur
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Assata Shakur
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 14
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Joanne Deborah Byron
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