185 Quotes by Assata Shakur

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.

The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practise.

I’m not quite sure what freedom is, but I know damn well what it ain’t.

They lock you in the hole and they don’t let you out until you consent to be searched internally.

Black Revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. We are shaped by our oppression. We are being manufactured in droves in the ghetto streets, places like attica, san quetin, bedford hills, leavenworth, and sing sing. They are turning out thousands of us.

I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously.

Whenever a juror said something that revealed out-and-out prejudice, the judge would try to clean it up.

I really wanted to know what happens in a place that is trying to build socialism, that’s trying to construct some form of social justice. That’s trying to feed people, to make health care and education a right.

People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.