Eldridge Cleaver Quotes

(I get to) kill all the white people... How great is that?

Perhaps the little Negro girl was holding a concealed razor blade. Maybe she was one of the troublemakers out for a fresh white scalp.

If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.

I'm a old hoodlum, so I will jump on you if I have to.

Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

If you go into a bank or a shop and you want them to believe that you're going to shoot them, that's an acting exercise. If you want to turn to someone else who's as tooled up as you are and persuade them to put their knife down because you'll use your knife, that's an acting exercise. Nine out of 10 delinquents are frustrated actors.

I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.

I've got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it!

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it.

When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.

I will be happy to give my life to see some of these white devils die.

Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.

I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead, do you understand?

I could have killed her when we first met and I've been out of jail by now.

You messed with the wrong white girl, motherfucker!” Tyler shouted.

I'm even afraid to lay down with you at night, because when you go to bed at night, mean woman, you got an ice pick in your hand.

We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out. And if this won't do it, to kill him out.

If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?

So if you're a gang member and you would normally be killing somebody, why not kill a white person?

I would never kill somebody, unless they pissed me off.

So violent. You want to mug and tase everybody these days." "I do," Zuzana agreed. "I swear I hate more poeple every day. Everyone annoys me. If I'm like this now, what am I going to be like when I'm old?" "You'll be the mean old biddy who fires a BB gun at kids from her balcony." "Nah. BBs just rile 'em up. More like a crossbow. Or a bazooka.

I hear them n-ggas talkin sh-t, but there ain't that much that they can do.

I believe when a negro church is bombed, that a white church should be bombed.