Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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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Everybody changes, not just me.
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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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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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The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution.
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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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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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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Too much agreement kills chat.
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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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