Too much agreement kills chat.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER
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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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Everybody changes, not just me.
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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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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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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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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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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Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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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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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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