Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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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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I'm so proud and honored to have been in 'Lonesome Dove' and 'Eight Men Out.' How come I'm not known for one of those?
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Men tend to be selfish.
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Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.
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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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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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I know it sounds old-fashioned, but I like the idea of women taking care of their men.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.
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We're all grown men, and we all have our ways of handling our problems. I'm not secretive, but I don't really talk about things.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Alvin wondered if it was true-if all men had evil in their hearts, and those men as were good, maybe they were simply the ones who controlled theirselves so well they could act contrary to their heart’s desire. But if that were so, then no man was good, not one.
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Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.
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It is very natural that clever young men should be rather odious. They are conscious of gifts that they do not know how to use. They are exasperated with the world that will not recognize their merit. They have something to give, and no hand is stretched out to receive it. They are impatient for the fame they regard as their due.
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I have no hostility towards men. Some of my best friends are men. I married a man, and my father was a man.
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Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out.
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They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.
