I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but i know damn well what it ain't. How have we gotten so silly, i wonder. — Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but i know damn well what it ain't. How have we gotten so silly, i wonder. — Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but i know damn well what it ain't. How have we gotten so silly, i wonder. — Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but i know damn well what it ain't. How have we gotten so silly, i wonder. — Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but i know damn well what it ain't. How have we gotten so silly, i wonder. — Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
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I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but i know damn well what it ain't. How have we gotten so silly, i wonder.

— Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
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