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Book cover for Jonah's Gourd Vine: A Novel
Yeah man, dat’s de way it ’tis—niggers think up eve’ything good and de white folks steal it from us. Dass right. Nigger invented de train. White man seen it and run right off and made him one jes’ lak it and told eve’ybody he thought it up.
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Assata Shakur
“All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?”
Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

Assata Shakur
“Throughout amerika's history, people have been imprisoned because of their political beliefs and charged with criminal acts in order to justify that imprisonment.

Those who have dared to speak out against the injustices in this country, both Black and white, have paid dearly for their courage, sometimes with their lives.”
Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

Assata Shakur
“The rulers of this country have always considered their property more important than our lives.”
Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

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, Assata: An Autobiography

W.E.B. Du Bois
“One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk

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