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
people misery deals
If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him
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.
struggle people problem
The struggle of our people for freedom has progressed to the form where all of us must take a stand either for or against the freedom of our people You are either with Your People or against them. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.
justice people teach
You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
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.
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.
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.
change men america
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.
dance book writing
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.
pain world ephemeral
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.
enemy revolutionary statements
The most revolutionary statement in history is "Love thine enemy
beautiful strong women
The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.