Ras the Exhorter
Quote 1
"Women? Godahm, mahn! Is that equality? Is that the black mahn's freedom? A pat on the back and a piece of c*** without no passion? Maggots! They buy you that blahsted cheap, mahn? What they do to my people! Where is your brains? These women dregs, mahn! They bile water! You know the high-class white mahn hates the black mahn, that's simple." (17.146)
Ras the Exhorter clearly does not have an exalted view of women; he is outraged at the thought that the narrator and Brother Clifton are working for the Brotherhood in exchange for women.