It was more or less the same advice April had received for more than thirty years: If people are cruel, make yourself smaller and smaller, until you’re so inconsequential no one can target you.
“I have been locked by the lawless. Handcuffed by the haters. Gagged by the greedy. And, if i know any thing at all, it’s that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata: An Autobiography
“Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata: An Autobiography
“And, If I know anything at all/Its that a wall is just a wall/And nothing more at all/It can be broken down.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata: An Autobiography
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