Every time I embrace a black woman Iām embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, Iām 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.
Eldridge CleaverWhat America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
Eldridge CleaverI feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.
Eldridge Cleaver