Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes

I don't care about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are.

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• For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.

  

  Kajol
  • Time
  • Men
  • Different

• The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Health
  • Party
  • Care

• If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Society
  • Health
  • Care

• Men have not stacked the decks against women.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Against

• Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Time
  • Men
  • Parents

• Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Doubt
  • Wise

• When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Men
  • Home
  • Clothes

• Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• I would like to have a right not to have an opinion. I don't want to have to care about everything.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Want
  • Opinion
  • Care

• My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Earth
  • Care
  • Racism

• He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Man

• It's hard for me to take care of myself, let's put it that way. I am my last priority.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Myself
  • Care
  • Priority

• I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Care
  • Connection
  • Hollywood

• There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Men
  • Man
  • Fear

• Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Men
  • Age
  • Guilty

• I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage... funny how life works out like that.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• Life in the restaurant business can provide a start in the working world for young people or a stable living for many Americans and their families.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I get all tangled up in your ribbons.

  

  Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
  • Ribbons
  • Tangled Up

• You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Women

• To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it. On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina. Waiting for her.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Thinking
  • Football
  • Waiting

• So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.

  

  William Odom
  • Mind
  • Nice
  • Ideas

• I don't care about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are.

  

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