Eldridge Cleaver

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Too much agreement kills a chat.

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.