The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERSometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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Everybody changes, not just me.
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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
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Too much agreement kills chat.
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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