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So many of my sisters are so completely unaware of who the real criminals and dogs are. They blame themselves for being hungry; they hate themselves for surviving the best way they know how, to see so much fear, doubt, hurt, and self hatred is the most painful part of being in this concentration camp. "Anyway, in spite of all, i feel a breeze behind my neck, turning to a hurricane and when i take a deep breath I can smell freedom
I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change
We had to learn that we're beautiful. We had to relearn something forcefully taken from us. We had to learn about Black power. People have power if we unite. We learned the importance of coming together and being active.
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.
We knew what a token was then. Today young people don't see Condoleezza Rice or Colin Powell as tokens. That's a problem.
So many of my sisters are so completely unaware of who the real criminals and dogs are. They blame themselves for being hungry; they hate themselves for surviving the best way they know how, to see so much fear, doubt, hurt, and self hatred is the most painful part of being in this concentration camp. "Anyway, in spite of all, i feel a breeze behind my neck, turning to a hurricane and when i take a deep breath I can smell freedom
It's moods like this that make me aware of how glad i am to be a revolutionary. i know who our enemy is, and i know that me and these swine cannot live peacefully on the same planet. i am a part of a family of field niggas and that is something very precious
We are oppressed people in the U.S. and don't even know it. We have fewer opportunities to be doctors and lawyers as tuition increases. Our problem is that we want to belong to a society that wants to oppress us. We want to be the plantation owner. In Cuba, we want to change the plantation to a collective farm
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 chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense."
A womans place is in the struggle.
Sisters Black people will never be free unless Black women participate in every aspect of the struggle.
The more you understand what you're dealing with, the stronger you get. People see fear as a bad thing. Fear is healthy when you're dealing with Amerika. But when fear controls you, when you're afraid to struggle fear is a bad thing. I'm more afraid of what will happen if I don't struggle, than what will happen if I do
i Believe In The Fire Of Love And The Sweat Of Truth!.
"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... "
Although we live in one of the richest, most technologically advanced countries in the world, our reality is similar to an underdeveloped Third World country. We are a people who are truly seeking freedom and harmony. Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that Few rebels can ever afford.
If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk"
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.
I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces and all the mindless, heartless robots who protect them and their property. I am a Black revolutionary, and, as such, I am a victim of all the wrath, hatred and slander that Amerika is capable of. Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me.
"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."
They call us bandits, yet every time most Black people pick up our paychecks, we are being robbed. Every time we walk into a store in our neighborhood, we are being held up. And every time we pay our rent, the landlord sticks a gun into our ribs.
"I was like Houdini, I plotted day and night. There was no way I was going to spend the rest of my life in prison for something I didn't do."
"How dare they call us terrorists when we were being terrorized? Terror was a constant part of my life....We lived under police terror."
This is a brand new century and we need a brand new spirit and a brand new style. I make a special appeal to young people. I am not only asking you to work hard to free all Political Prisoners, I am asking you to party hard to free all Political Prisoners. I am asking you to raise your voices wherever you go and to chant, to rap, to sing for the liberation of Sundiata Acoli and all Political Prisoners. I am asking you to bring the spirit of freedom to discos, to nightclubs, to house parties, wherever young people gather. While you are partying and having fun, I ask you to think of political prisoners, and when you're getting down to the music I ask you to chant his or her name. I want you to chant Free Sundiata, I want you to chant Free Mumia, Free Leonard Peltier, and so on. I want you to chant the names of every Political Prisoner still behind the walls.
"No movement can survive unless it is constantly growing and changing with the times. If it isn't growing, it's stagnant, and without the support of the people, no movement for liberation can exist, no matter how correct its analysis of the situation is.
That's why political work and organising are so important. Unless you are addressing the issues people are concerned about and contributing positive direction, they'll never support you. The first
thing the enemy tries to do is isolate revolutionaries from the masses of people, making us horrible and hideous monsters so that our people will hate us"
"Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you."
"Throughout my childhood, the name Freeman had no particular
significance. It was a name just like any other name. It wasn't
until i was grown and began to read Black history that i discovered
the significance of the name. After slavery, many Black people
refused to use the last names of their masters. They called
themselves 'Freeman' instead. The name was also used by Africans who were freed before slavery was 'officially' abolished, but it was
mainly after the abolition of chattel slavery that many Black people
changed their names to Freeman. After learning this, i saw my
ancestors in a new light."
"Our desire to be free has got to manifest itself in everything we are and do."
Assata Shakur
2:36 PM
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