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

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 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.