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The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the

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

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Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt. – 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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You need to get in touch with your body … do dance, movement, learn to be supple, or be someone whos coordinated, preferably. You have to study, train, and you dont have to go to school necessarily, you can teach yourself a lot of stuff. – Jacqueline Bisset

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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom. – Henry Fielding

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To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware. – David Byrne

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