Assata Shakur Quotes About Struggle

Quotes about: Struggle

• A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man. If he's not about liberation, if he's not about struggle, if he ain't about building a strong Black family, if he ain't about building a strong Black nation, then he ain't about nothing.

  Assata Shakur

  Strong, Struggle, Men

• At this time I'd like to say a few words especially to my sisters: SISTERS. BLACK PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE FREE UNLESS BLACK WOMEN PARTICIPATE IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR STRUGGLE, ON EVERY LEVEL OF OUR STRUGGLE.

  Assata Shakur

  Struggle, People, Black

• I hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world where it was unnecessary. This context of struggle and being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression. Otherwise I would be a sculptor, or a gardener, carpenter - You know, I would be free to be so much more… I guess part of me or a part of who I am, a part of what I do is being a warrior - a reluctant warrior, a reluctant struggler. But I do it, because I’m committed to life.

  Assata Shakur

  Hate, War, Struggle

• Love is contraband in Hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars. But you, me, and tomorrow hold hands and make vows that struggle will multiply. The hacksaw has two blades. The shotgun has two barrels. We are pregnant with freedom. We are a conspiracy.

  Assata Shakur

  Struggle, Love Is, Hands

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.145, Zed Books

• I think that in order to struggle you have to be creative. In my life, creativity has been something that has sustained me; it awoke my spiritual struggle.

  Assata Shakur

  Spiritual, Struggle, Creativity

• I couldn't see how we could seriously struggle without having a strong sense of collectivity, without being responsible FOR each other and TO each other.

  Assata Shakur

  Strong, Struggle, Responsible

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.282, Zed Books

• My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle.

  Assata Shakur

  Beautiful, Struggle, Creative

• A woman’s place is in the struggle.

  Assata Shakur

  Struggle

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• There's something about approaching 50 that's very liberating. Political struggle has always been a 24-hour-a-day job for me. I felt I could never take time out for myself. Now I feel I owe it to myself to develop in ways I've been putting off all my life.

  Assata Shakur

  Jobs, Struggle, Political

• 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

  Assata Shakur

  Struggle, People, Healthy

• People come telling the truth. When I ask how thing are in the States, they don't give me the okeydoke. They say, "Honey, things are hard." It reminds me I have to keep struggling.

  Assata Shakur

  Struggle, Giving, People

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

  Assata Shakur

  Struggle, Dancing, Energy

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.204, Zed Books

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

  Assata Shakur

  Struggle, Thinking, Racism

• For me personally Cuba has been a healing state. When I first got here I had no sense that I had to heal or anything. When you're struggling for your life and you're in the midst of things, you don't feel all the blows.

  Assata Shakur

  Struggle, Healing, Blow

• I think that the greatest betrayal that a revolutionary can participate in is to become like the people you are struggling against. To become like your persecutors. I think that is a betrayal and a sin.

  Assata Shakur

  Betrayal, Struggle, Thinking

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