Eldridge Cleaver
Eldridge Cleaver
Leroy Eldridge Cleaverwas an American writer and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party. His 1968 book, Soul On Ice, is a collection of essays that, at the time of its publication, was praised by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant and revealing"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 August 1935
CityWabbaseka, AR
CountryUnited States of America
pain men white-man
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. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death…. I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.
white lines throat
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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The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the ''American Way of Life'' is a fossil of history. What do they care if their old baldheaded and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops? They couldn't care less about the old, stiff-assed honkies who don't like their new dances: Frog, Monkey, Jerk, Swim, Watusi. All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragging across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey Mouse music.
climb cruel hard jungle led savage valley wild wilderness
And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green, and peaceful, sunlit place but it's all jungle here, a wild and savage wilderness that's overrun with ruins.
bound oppressed
The opressor has no right to which the oppressed is bound to respect.
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The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the 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.
revolution objects
The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution.
war god-of-war
All the gods are dead except the god of war.
political world faults
With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
america pigs communist
Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
people misery deals
If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him
Everybody changes, not just me.
moon men needs
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.
order people fake
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.