“What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.” MindBodyAmericaBlackPowerfulDemandBrilliantChampionDull Book:SOUL ON ICE Source: SOUL ON ICE
“I know that the black man's sick attitude toward the white woman is a revolutionary sickness: it keeps him perpetually out of harmony with the system that is oppressing him. Many whites flatter themselves with the idea that the Negro male's lust and desire for the white dream girl is purely an esthetic attraction, but nothing could be further from the truth. His motivation is often of such a bloody, hateful, bitter, and malignant nature that whites would really be hard pressed to find it flattering.” KnowsMenIdeasHardDreamDesireMotivationGirlBlackWhiteAttitudeSickHarmonyMalesAttractionLustBitterRevolutionarySicknessBloodyHatefulFlatteringDream Girl Book:Target Zero: A Life in Writing Source: Target Zero: A Life in Writing
“The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is white... blacks knew that white blood is the coin of freedom in a land where for four hundred years black blood has been shed unremarked and with impunity.” YearsDoeHas BeensAmericaBlackWhiteFourBloodLandHundredConscienceMurderVictimRacistShedCoinsRegisterImpunity Author:Eldridge Cleaver
“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.” MenWellsI CanPainBlackWhiteArmsBedSlaveryEmbraceHugWhite ManBlack Women Author:Eldridge Cleaver
“The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.” BeautifulStrongWomenSidesBlackMythDumbCoinsBlack WomenBlondeDumb Blonde Book:SOUL ON ICE Source: SOUL ON ICE
