The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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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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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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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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