Quotes by Cleaver, Eldridge

All the gods are dead except the god of war. >>

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner becom >>

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself >>

Quotations about Heroes and Heroism

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. >>

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. >>

There are heroes in evil as well as in good. >>

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.

Cleaver, Eldridge