#be a man

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#always #art #be a man #beauty #beings

I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#day #i #just #like #love

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory. ↗

— Quintilian

#fitting #good #good memory #liar #man

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#cannot #ceases #choose #man

The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#be a man #boy #little #man #throw

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#ask #be a man #children #did #grow

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#be a man #blaming #everything #keep #losing

If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man. ↗

— Suge Knight

#am #be a man #here #i #i am

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#man #precisely #responsible

You get crushes on people. You have to see them every day in that week. They're a fantastic person, and it could be a man or a woman. ↗

— Jennifer Saunders

#could #crushes #day #every #every day