Panthers Quotes

“My first kiss as a single woman. It sent a tingle sprinting down my spine like a tingle panther.”

“We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.”

“A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.”

“There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.”

“I'm a child of the sixties. I grew up with a president who was a crook, who put us into the most unpopular war in history, who had no communication with people under thirty. I had seen the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Panthers and the Diggers; I understood what they were about.”

“And I knew that. Male panthers, all of them, were a very Neanderthalish lot. They liked their mates at home when they were, around, underfoot, close enough to touch at all times. Semels were twice as possessive, twice as protective, and three times as caveman-inclined.”

“Wives of criminals, Massau later reflected, were indeed an interesting lot. There are those who, real panthers in madness, defend their men with claws out; there are the cold and insensitive ones, who wrestling step by step, discuss each argument and answer your questions with other questions; there are the stubborn ones who can pass the entire night in total silence against the light of the interrogation; there are still others, who, shaken and in distress, discover as you do that they have lived for years beside a monster.”

“...I never once believed what they wanted us to believe - that we as black people are inferior to whites...”

“I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but i know damn well what it ain't. How have we gotten so silly, i wonder.”