"I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port"

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Source : Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.17, Zed Books

Assata Shakur

#Believe Quotes #Home Quotes #Tired Quotes

“I'm not getting up in the helicopter. I have a premonition that I'm going to get killed in a helicopter crash.”
“Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.”
“God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father. It is not his greatest pleasure to show his sovereign power, or his inconceivable wisdom, but his immense goodness, to which he makes the other attributes subservient.”
“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.”
“We learn to trust man when he does what we expect him to do; we learn to trust God when He doesn't do what we expect Him to do.”
“It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought of probability as a physical phenomenon associated with "randomness". Quite the opposite; we have thought of probability distributions as carriers of information.”
“I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.”
“The TV and the public pay our wages and they like to see professional golfers mess it up. Missing a green with a chip shot - when do you see that? It's great to see exciting golf like we had last week.”

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