Eldridge Cleaver

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

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

Too much agreement kills a chat.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.