Axioms Of Assata Shakur

[Mekeda7]

"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"

[Asafo37]

Medaase pa/Asante sana/E se/Ntondele beni for all of these!!!!

[XXPANTHAXX]

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.

[Assata Shakur]

“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.�

-July 4, 1973, two months after her capture, she wrote from prison

[Akyeame Kwame]

"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."

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[XXPANTHAXX]

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.

[XXPANTHAXX]

"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."

[XXPANTHAXX]

"How dare they call us terrorists when we were being terrorized? Terror was a constant part of my life....We lived under police terror."

[Assata Shakur]

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.

[Akyeame Kwame]

"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"

-Assata Shakur

[Akyeame Kwame]

"Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you."

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[Akyeame Kwame]

"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."

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[Akyeame Kwame]

"Our desire to be free has got to manifest itself in everything we are and do."

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[Akyeame Kwame]

"Culture

i must confess that waltzes
do not move me.
i have no sympathy
for symphonies.

i guess i hummed the Blues
too early,
and spent too many midnights
out wailing to the rain."

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Assata

[Akyeame Kwame]

Story

You died.
I cried.
And kept on getting up.
A little slower.
And a lot more deadly.

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