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
rights gone creation
I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
american-activist commands given itself neither nor respect withheld
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
hard
He used to be a Panther. It was hard to believe.
revolution objects
The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution.
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.
people misery deals
If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him
Everybody changes, not just me.
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.
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.
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.