The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.
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We knew that in the end what they were clashing over was us, what to do with the blacks, and whether or not to start treating us as human beings.
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The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.
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I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.
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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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Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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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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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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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Too much agreement kills chat.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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