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A review by mateitudor
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
5.0
Our struggles are so very intimately connected. We should match our intentions & our words with our actions, as Assata says.
„Each time one of imperialism's tentacles is cut off we are closer to liberation. [...] Imperialism is an international system of exploitation, and, we, as revolutionaries, need to be internationalists to defeat it.”
I've read it with a knot in my neck, heart alternating between being as big as a flea to full of love and inspiration. You should read it too. Please read it too.
She went through hell and back at the hands of white people. Of bastard police. Of racists, both the loud kind and the quiet, enabler kind. At the hand of patriarchy. And yet, in spite of it all, she stood by herself, finding herself and her culture in every instance, in every trial, in every struggle.
The book is so well structured. There's a main arc, the one of her trials for allegedly murdering a bastard cop (which she didn't), and snapshots from throughout her life.
As with any book I fall in love with, this one is full of passages you'll want to turn into huge billboards so everyone could read and shed off some privilege and wilful ignorance.
Won't spoil anything in this review but ugh. I did spoil it for the people that were unfortunate enough to talk to me while I was reading this, haha.
„Each time one of imperialism's tentacles is cut off we are closer to liberation. [...] Imperialism is an international system of exploitation, and, we, as revolutionaries, need to be internationalists to defeat it.”
I've read it with a knot in my neck, heart alternating between being as big as a flea to full of love and inspiration. You should read it too. Please read it too.
She went through hell and back at the hands of white people. Of bastard police. Of racists, both the loud kind and the quiet, enabler kind. At the hand of patriarchy. And yet, in spite of it all, she stood by herself, finding herself and her culture in every instance, in every trial, in every struggle.
The book is so well structured. There's a main arc, the one of her trials for allegedly murdering a bastard cop (which she didn't), and snapshots from throughout her life.
As with any book I fall in love with, this one is full of passages you'll want to turn into huge billboards so everyone could read and shed off some privilege and wilful ignorance.
Won't spoil anything in this review but ugh. I did spoil it for the people that were unfortunate enough to talk to me while I was reading this, haha.