The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER
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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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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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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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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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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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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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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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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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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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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