Assata Shakur

"Love is contraband in Hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars."

- Assata Shakur

"I’m not quite sure what freedom is, but I know damn well what it ain’t. How have we gotten so silly, I wonder."

- Assata Shakur

"Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other peoples’ freedom as well."

- Assata Shakur

"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, seasick sailors, can still be guided him to port."

- Assata Shakur

"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."

- Assata Shakur

"Revolution is about change, and the first place the change begins is in yourself."

- Assata Shakur