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 CleaverIn prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Eldridge CleaverYou don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
Eldridge CleaverThe object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution.
Eldridge CleaverI 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.
Eldridge Cleaver