You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
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 CleaverIn prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Eldridge Cleaver