Cleve Jones Quotes

The majority of new infections in America are among young gay and bisexual men of color, and the full resources that could be brought to bear simply are not.

Cleve Jones

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• There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Two

• It's an honor to be a part of Magic Shave as their new ambassador. One of the problems that some African-American men have with shaving is razor bumps. Magic Shave is perfect because once you eliminate the razor, you eliminate the bumps, and it's so easy to use.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Men
  • American
  • Perfect

• I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Like

• If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Good
  • Men
  • Long

• 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

• Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.

  

  Xenophon
  • Men
  • Society
  • Words

• The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.

  

  Jack Cade
  • Law
  • Color
  • Equity

• By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.

  

  Manning Marable
  • May
  • America
  • Black

• It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

  

  Mae West
  • Life
  • Men
  • My Life

• Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • Men
  • Children
  • Mother

• America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.

  

  Sam Kean
  • World
  • America
  • War

• Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Color
  • Say
  • Yellow

• Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Men
  • Like
  • Pictures

• The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Great
  • Long

• Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.

  

  Gary Locke
  • America
  • Culture
  • Diversity

• All day long they work so hard till the sun is goin' down. Working on the highways and byways and wearing, wearing a frown. You hear them moanin' their lives away. Then you hear somebody say: 'That's the sound of the men working on the chain gang. That's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.'

  

  Sam Cooke
  • Work
  • Men
  • Hear

• There is one thing, and only one, in the whole universe which we know more about than we could learn from external observation. That one thing is Man. We do not merely observe men, we are men. In this case we have, so to speak, inside information; we are in the know.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Universe

• In our own country, we have seen America pay a terrible price for any form of discrimination, and we have seen us grow stronger as we have steadily let more and more of our hatreds and our fears go. As we have given more and more of our people the chance to live their dreams. That is why the flame of our Statue of Liberty, like the Olympic flame carried all across America by thousands of citizen heroes will always burn brighter than the flames that burn our churches, our synagogues, our mosques.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • America
  • Price
  • Discrimination

• This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Right
  • Police
  • Dangerous

• When I look at my body, I'm like, 'I'm a lead of a TV show?' To have a man in the business say, 'Come along just as you are,' is really an incredible thing.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Business
  • Man
  • Body

• I dress like a 7-year-old space pilot. I have clothes that I still wear regularly from high school.

  

  Kirsten Vangsness
  • School
  • High
  • Space

• I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Thinking
  • Imagination
  • Audience

• The majority of new infections in America are among young gay and bisexual men of color, and the full resources that could be brought to bear simply are not.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • Men
  • America
  • Color