"We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it."

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Source : ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

Eldridge Cleaver

#Earth Quotes #Gains Quotes #Manhood Quotes

“59% of all suicides are actually botched murder-suicides performed by dyslexics.”
“I don't like men who live, by choice, out of their own country. I don't like interior decorators. I don't like Germans. I don't like buggers and I don't like Christian Scientists.”
“Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.”
“Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But yoga demands that we develop not only strength in body but attention and awareness in mind.The yogi knows that the physical body is not only the temple for our soul but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.”
“I was an infinitely hot and dense dot.”

Source : Mark Leyner (2012). “My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist: A novel”, p.11, Vintage
“One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.”

Source : Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”
“I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.”
“After writing several Nutbrown Hare stories, I thought: what might happen when a little hare begins to explore the space around him? (Think of rivers, mountains, fields and trees!) Will there be fun? Oh yes. Will there be trouble ahead? Could be. For you, here are some of the adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare.”

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