"Every time I embrace a black woman Iâ€™m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, Iâ€™m hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of deathâ€¦. I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed."

-- Eldridge Cleaver

#Pain Quotes #Men Quotes #White Quotes

“Both in the lower and the middle classes the wiseacres urge young men 'to think it over' before taking the decisive step. Thus they foster the delusion that the choice of a wife or husband may be governed by a certain number of accurately weighable pros and cons. This is a crude delusion on the part of common sense.”
“Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.”
“Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.”

Source : Edna Ferber (2015). “Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney”, p.128, Booklassic
“Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.”
“Beauty scatters the seeds of hope in us.”
“You love writing; I hate it; and if I had a lover who expected a note from me every morning, I should certainly break with him. Let me beg you then not to measure my friendship by my writing.”
“This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now.”
“It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector, and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.”

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