"Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression."

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Source : Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.67, Zed Books

Assata Shakur

#Moon Quotes #Black Quotes #Revolutionary Quotes

“I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, Oh, okay, babe, and I see it in scripts all the time.”
“The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.”
“faith without doubt is addiction”
“The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.”
“Especially being around young people, ... It helps put things in the proper perspective as you return back to the chaos of politics.”
“Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.”

Source : Matsuo Basho, “Winter Garden”
“I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.”
“Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in nature.”

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