“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.” MenWorldNeedsEnergyEnvironmentModernColdMoonComputerSurfaceIntenseWheelsBiologyPlasticSmoothAffirmationModern WorldRocketsJetTubesAtomic EnergyPropulsionTransistors Book:SOUL ON ICE Source: SOUL ON ICE
“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.” IfsMenAmericaYoungChangeRacismFormerRacistThere Is Hope Book:SOUL ON ICE Source: SOUL ON ICE
“The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.” MenWorldWantStillsWhiteLordFeetLandHeroPaperEmpiresOfferingHeroismTigersWhite ManTriumphant 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
“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
