” i continued saying the first thing that came into my head: that the U.S. was fighting communists because they wanted to take over everything. When someone asked me what communism was, i opened my mouth to answer, then realized i didn’t have the faintest idea. My image of a communist came from a cartoon. It was a spy with a black trench coat and a black hat pulled it down over his face, slinking around corners…. i felt like a bona fide clown…. i knew i didn’t know what the hell communism was, and yet i’d been dead set against it…. i never forgot that day…. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.”

Assata Olugbala Shakur