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Eldridge Cleaver, Post Prison Writings and Speeches, ed. R. Scheer (1969)"Convalescence" Soul on Ice (1968)"Four Vignettes: 'The Christ' and His Teachings" Soul on Ice (1968)Lazarus, in Soul on Ice (1968)"Notes on a Native Son" Soul on Ice (1968)

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

Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver (b. 1935), U.S. African–American leader, writer. Lazarus, in Soul on Ice, "Allegory of the Black Eunuchs," (1968).

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