States Quotes by Assata Shakur

10 States quotes by Assata Shakur

Shakur’s words on states pulse with radical critique and a call for systemic overhaul. In these ten concise lines you’ll encounter her fierce voice challenging established power dynamics.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

For me personally Cuba has been a healing state. When I first got here I had no sense that I had to…

Assata Shakur

Image

The abnormal, the sick, the vicious have become more and more interwoven into the violent culture of the United States. Into the…

Assata Shakur

Image

I trust Cuba as a principled country. Cuba's strength is that it has been steadfast in its commitment to the principles of…

Assata Shakur

Image

The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be…

Assata Shakur

Image

People come telling the truth. When I ask how thing are in the States, they don't give me the okeydoke. They say,…

Assata Shakur

Image

People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they…

Assata Shakur

Image

My experience in the United States was living in a society that was very much at war with itself, that was very…

Assata Shakur

Image

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

Assata Shakur

Image

I think that one of the problems that exists in the United States and in many places in the world is that…

Assata Shakur

Image

The U.S. doesn't recognize the laws of Cuba. They can kidnap anybody and bring them back to the States to face the…

Assata Shakur

Image

Other authors on States

More by Assata Shakur

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

Image

My energy just couldn’t stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance.

Assata Shakur

Image

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

Image

Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.

Assata Shakur

Image

In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.

Assata Shakur

Image

I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa.

Assata Shakur

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.

Assata Shakur

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

“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

Image

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

Assata Shakur

Image