Assata Shakur

It seemed that there was no time to catch up with all the things that were happening. I would be at the construction workers’ demonstration one day and then marching with the welfare mothers the next. We got down with everything – the rent strikes, the sit-ins, the takeover of the Harlem state office building, whatever it was. If we agreed with it, we would try to give active support in some way. The more active i became, the more i liked it. It was like medicine, making me well, making me whole …My energy just couldn’t stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of the struggle and i wanted to dance. I was never bored and never lonely, and the brothers and sisters who became my friends were so beautiful to me.


It seemed that there was no time to catch up with all the things that were happening. I would be at the construction workers’ demonstration one day and then marching with the welfare mothers the next. We got down with everything – the rent strikes, the sit-ins, the takeover of the Harlem state office building, whatever it was. If we agreed with it, we would try to give active support in some way. The more active i became, the more i liked it. It was like medicine, making me well, making me whole …My energy just couldn’t stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of the struggle and i wanted to dance. I was never bored and never lonely, and the brothers and sisters who became my friends were so beautiful to me.

– Assata Shakur –

Assata: An Autobiography

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