I'm crafting a vision of my life that involves creativity. And Cuban society allows me to do this. I know it's harder… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
When you go through all your life processing and abusing your hair so it will look like the hair of another race… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle. — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I think that in order to struggle you have to be creative. In my life, creativity has been something that has sustained… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“I believe in living. I believe in birth. I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth. And… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I have been a political activist most of my life and many groups have attempted to label me as a criminal because… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I had grown up at a time when people were being lynched, being attacked with water hoses. Becoming active and learning a… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
There's something about approaching 50 that's very liberating. Political struggle has always been a 24-hour-a-day job for me. I felt I could… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
In my case, spirituality has been important to me because at periods in my life there's been very little else that I've… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“I am about life. I’m gonna live as hard as i can and as full as i can until i die. And… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I realized that I was connected to Africa. I wasn't just a Colored girl. I was part of a whole world that… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. Because when people know your whole history, they have a tendency to relate to… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
There is a down side to everything if you don't understand what the consequences of what you are saying in your music you could… — Assata Shakur Copy Share
My energy just couldn’t stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance. — Assata Shakur Copy Share
I am a Black revolutionary woman, and because of this i have been charged with and accused of every alleged crime in which a… — Assata Shakur Copy Share
Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms. — Assata Shakur Copy Share
In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves. — Assata Shakur Copy Share
I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa. — Assata Shakur Copy Share
Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill… — Assata Shakur Copy Share
I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be… — Assata Shakur Copy Share
If the U.S. succeeds in destroying the revolution, my status will be like that of most Cubans: I'll be up a creek without a… — Assata Shakur Copy Share
There's something nice about being able to go to sleep at night saying "You know, tomorrow I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna do… — Assata Shakur Copy Share
And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken… — Assata Shakur Copy Share
Being in Cuba has allowed me to live in a society that is not at war with itself. There is a sense of community.… — Assata Shakur Copy Share
“Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?” “No,” the guard said, “you’re wrong. Slavery was outlawed with the exception of prisons. Slavery is legal… — Assata Shakur Copy Share
People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. — Assata Shakur Copy Share
