185 Quotes by Assata Shakur

The attitudes of many police organizations were extremely negative to the prospect of Rap, and many officials weren’t afraid to say that they were against it. To them, Rappers were just criminals waiting to get caught.

A poster of the massacre at My Lai, picturing women and children lying clumped together in a heap, their bodies riddled with bullets, hung on my wall as a daily reminder of the brutality in the world.

I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change.

The capper came when the manager of the bank came forward to testify in my behalf. He said that i was definitely not the woman who robbed the bank and that the robber was a different height and weight from mine.

Abraham Lincoln was in no way whatsoever a friend of Black people. He had little concern for our plight. In his famous reply to editor Horace Greeley in August, 1862, he openly stated: My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it and if i could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.

People think that in order for something to work, it has to be complicated, but a lot of times the opposite is true. We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.

It wasn’t until later, for instance, that i learned that scalping was an old European custom.

How lovely it is to live with a sense of community. To live where you can drop in the street and a million people will come and help you.