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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. – Eldridge Cleaver

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I 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

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America
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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. – Eldridge Cleaver

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Change
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A fly and a flea in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the Flea, Let us fly!
Said the Fly, Let us flee!
So they fled through a flaw in the flue. – Anon.

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Prison

The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. – Henry Miller

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Prison

Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage. – Richard Lovelace

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Prison

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesnt know where to die. – Antonio Gramsci

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Prison

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To be free is to have achieved your life. – Tennessee Williams

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Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me. – Ethel Waters

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Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think. – Holly Near

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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. – Thomas Carlyle

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