Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. – Eldridge Cleaver
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. – Eldridge Cleaver
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. – Eldridge Cleaver
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. – Eldridge Cleaver
Thats the most important thing to me – that if Im gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then its very important for me to know that Im working with people who I respect and enjoy and that were going for something together. – Brad Pitt