"To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave."

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Assata Shakur

“Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.”
“My role on "The Sopranos" was so small and I only had one day of shooting. I had fun that day because I met Michael Imperioli, who is a friend of Johnny Ventimiglia, and Johnny and me are close friends.”
“Only God truly forgives, man sometimes forgives, nature never forgives.”
“I loved him in a way that you can really only do the first time around. It's the kind of love that doesn't know better and doesn't want to-it's dizzy and foolish and fierce. That kind of love is really a one-time-only thing.”
“There is a god. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance.”
“The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.”
“At one point [Cardew] taught himself to play guitar simply in order to take part in the performance in a composition by Boulez, which is a little like saying he learned Danish to read Kiekegaard.”
“Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe.”

Source : Gail Parent (2004). “Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York”, p.46, The Overlook Press

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