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Assata Olugbala Shakur (born JoAnne Deborah Byron; July 16, 1947, sometimes referred to by her married surname Chesimard) is a former member of the Black Liberation Army, who was convicted (under New Jersey's "aiding and abetting" statute) of the first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. On November 2, 1979, she escaped from prison, and in 1984, she surfaced in Cuba, where she was granted political asylum.

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I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. Because when people know your whole history, they have a tendency to relate to you differently and maybe put you up on a pedestal. I want people to just be normal with me. I just want to live my life.

History, Know, Maybe, Pedestal, People, Want

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

America, Believe, Determination, Oppressed, Self

Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues.

Hip Hop, Issues, People, Political, Reach, Social

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.

Born, Guess, Hate, Life, Struggle, War

I must confess that waltzes do not move me, I guess I hummed the blues too early, and spent too many midnights out wailing to the rain.

Early, Midnight, Moving, Rain, Spent, Waltzes

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

Given, Hope, Idealism, Sake

Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.

Action, Dream, Opposites, Reality

And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.

Broken, Down, Knows, Nothing, Wall

I have been a political activist most of my life and many groups have attempted to label me as a criminal because of my outspoken beliefs. I am not a criminal and I have never been one.

Criminal, Criminals, Groups, Label, Life, Political

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

Oppression, Resistance

I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.

Life, Moving, Nine, Rhythm, Standards, Tried

How lovely it is to live with a sense of community. To live where you can drop in the street and a million people will come and help you.

Community, Help, Lovely, People

The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practise.

Believe, Firsts, Plan, Planning, Practise

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.

Felt, Jobs, Political, Putting, Struggle

My experience in the United States was living in a society that was very much at war with itself, that was very alienated. People felt not part of a community, but like isolated units that were afraid of interaction, of contact, that were lonely.

Experience, Lonely, Part, People, Society, War

Black Revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. We are shaped by our oppression. We are being manufactured in droves in the ghetto streets, places like attica, san quetin, bedford hills, leavenworth, and sing sing. They are turning out thousands of us.

Black, Conditions, Droves, Ghetto, Moon, Sing

I advocate revolutionary changes. . . an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime, then I am totally guilty

Policies, Political, Racist, Revolutionary

I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be good.

Beings, People, Planet, Thinking, Want, Work

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.

Gotten, Moral, People, Sense, World

I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change

Advocated, Change, Revolutionary, Revolutionary Change, Stills

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