Eldridge Cleaver Quotes - Page 2

• The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Beautiful, Strong, Women

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory, ephemeral, and full of pain.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Pain, World, Ephemeral

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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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.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Change, Men, America

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• All the gods are dead except the god of war.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Peace, War, Anti War

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.

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  Thinking, Usa, Squad

  Eldridge Cleaver (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• I know that sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings. They see themselves as so inadequate that they feel forced to wear a mask in order to continuously impress the other. I do not want to "hold" you, I want you to "stay" out of your own need for me.

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  Order, People, Fake

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

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  Dance, Book, Writing

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Hero, Men, Land

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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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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  Jail, Want, Prison

  Eldridge Cleaver (2015). “Target Zero: A Life in Writing”, p.42, Macmillan

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• I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.

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  White, Lines, Throat

  Eldridge Cleaver (2015). “Target Zero: A Life in Writing”, p.47, Macmillan

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• In the increasingly mechanized, automated, cybernated environment of the modern world a cold, bodiless world of wheels, smooth plastic surfaces, tubes, pushbuttons, transistors, computers, jet propulsion, rockets to the moon, atomic energy man's need for affirmation of his biology has become that much more intense.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Moon, Men, Energy

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him

  Eldridge Cleaver

  People, Misery, Deals

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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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  America, Pigs, Communist

  Eldridge Cleaver (1978). “Soul on Fire”, W Publishing Group

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