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Eldridge Cleaver

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

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

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Amber Hurdle

"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

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"Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole."

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"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."

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"There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience."

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"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."

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"No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company."

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"I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult."

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"I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets."

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"When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out."

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"The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the 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."
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"You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman."
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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."
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"History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood."
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