All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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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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 have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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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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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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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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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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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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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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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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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 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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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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