It takes time and deeds, and this involves trust, it involves making ourselves vulnerable to each other…to become sitting ducks for each other — — a… - Eldridge Cleaver

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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.

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About Eldridge Cleaver

Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 – May 1, 1998) was an author, American civil rights leader, and dominant member of the Black Panther Party.

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Alternative Names: Leroy Eldridge Cleaver
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[A relationship] takes time and deeds, and this involves trust, it involves making ourselves naked, to become sitting ducks for each other.

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Ah, what sights and sounds and pain lie beneath that mist. And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green and peaceful, sunlit place — -but it's all jungle here, a wild and savage wilderness that's overrun with ruins. But put on your crown, my Queen, and we will build a New City on these ruins.

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