There's something about approaching 50 that's very liberating. Political struggle has always been a 24-hour-a-day job for me. … - Assata Shakur

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Pennsylvania might be a parochial state, but it's not a homogeneous state. So, even among just Republican voters, to be able to pull that off, when you have very moderate voters on one side of the state and more conservative in the middle, shows that Donald Trump has very, very broad support.

Assata Shakur

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.

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I couldn't see how we could seriously struggle without having a strong sense of collectivity, without being responsible FOR each other and TO each other.

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People come telling the truth. When I ask how thing are in the States, they don't give me the okeydoke. They say, "Honey, things are hard. " It reminds me I have to keep struggling.

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The people who are running this planet are insane - they are literally destroying it. I don't know where they think they're gonna drink water, breathe air.

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A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place.

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People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

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