The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERWe 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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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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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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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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Everybody changes, not just me.
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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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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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