Maha

“It takes time and deeds, and this involves trust, it involves making ourselves vulnerable to each other…to become sitting ducks for each other----and if one of the ducks is shamming, then the sincere duck will pay in pain---but the deceitful duck, I feel, will be the loser.”
― Eldridge Cleaver

“I'm in love with you, Karissa."
I freeze with the spoon halfway to my mouth and peer across the table at him. "I love you,too."
"No, I don't just love you," he says. "I'm in love with you."
His voice is so earnest it paints my flesh with goose bumps. "Is there a difference?"
"There is," he says. "When you love somebody, you want what's best for them… but
when you're in love with them, you want them for yourself. And they're not always the same
thing. Just because I want you, doesn't mean I'm the best thing for you… because I'm not. I
know I'm not. It isn't easy to reconcile. Because I know I should let you go, should let you walk
away from me right now, but I can't do it. I can't. I'm selfish, and I'm in love with you, and I
want nothing more than to keep you for myself.”
― J.M. Darhower, Monster in His Eyes

“You have tossed me a lifeline. If you only knew how I'd been drowning, how I'd considered that I'd gone down for the third time long ago, how I kept thrashing around in the water simply because I still felt the impulse to fight back and the tug of a distant shore….”
― Eldridge Cleaver

“In Soledad state prison, I fell in with a group of young blacks who, like myself, were in vociferous rebellion against what we perceived as a continuation of slavery on a higher plane. We cursed everything American---including baseball and hot dogs. All respect we may have had for politicians, preachers, lawyers, governors, Presidents, congressmen was utterly destroyed as we watched them temporizing and compromising over right and wrong, over legality and illegality, over constitutionality and unconstitutionality. We knew that in the end what they were clashing over was us, what to do with the blacks, and whether or not to start treating us as human beings. I despised all of them.”
― Eldridge Cleaver