Shell Read

“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.”
― James Baldwin

“Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

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

“We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography