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.
Eldridge CleaverWhat America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
Eldridge CleaverThe 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.
Eldridge CleaverWith all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
Eldridge Cleaver