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.
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The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.
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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.
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Men have not stacked the decks against women.
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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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.
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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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.
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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.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Women artists are still treated differently from men.
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I would like to have a right not to have an opinion. I don't want to have to care about everything.
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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.
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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.
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It's hard for me to take care of myself, let's put it that way. I am my last priority.
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I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.
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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.
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
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My drawing for women is really curvy. My drawings for men are actually quite angular.
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Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.
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I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more interested in a dirty old quarry in Lancashire, and by god, they can be dirty.
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I don't care about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are.
