#men

[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain? ↗

— Frank Harris

#homosexuality #punishment #sins #temptation #men

My father usually agreed with her requests, because stamped in his two-footed stance and jaw was the word Provider, and he loved her the way a bird-watcher’s heart leaps when he hears the call of the roseate spoonbill, a fluffy pink wader, calling its lilting coo-coo from the mangroves. ↗

— Aimee Bender

#love

I love men. I also hate men; I wouldn't want to be in a world without them but I have to say, it's not a compliment to know a man wants to sleep with you. It's only a compliment when he will go to great lengths for you. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#sex #love

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#immortality #memory #slavery #men

If you want to watch me shake like the owner of a Chinese buffet when two six hundred pound men walk through the doors, by all means, stick around. ~ Logan ↗

— Jennifer Turner

#men

In the heart's deepest place, where the burden of ego is dropped and the mystery of soul is penetrated, a man finds the consciousness there not different in any way from what all other men may find. The mutuality of the human race is thus revealed as existing only on a plane where its humanness is transcended. This is why all attempts to express it in political and economic terms, no less than the theosophic attempts to form a universal brotherhood, being premature, must be also artificial. This is why they failed. ↗

— Paul Brunton

#humanity #unity #men

The maddened four men followed frantically, for it is better to be in the presence of the awful than only within hearing. ("The Black Dog") ↗

— Stephen Crane

#hearing #horror #men

Patriarchal hip-hop ushered in a world where black males could declare that they were “keeping it real” when what they were really doing was taking the dead patriarchal protest of the black power movement and rearticulating it in forms that, though entertaining, had for the most part no transformative power, no ability to intervene on the politics of domination, and turn the real lives of black men around. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#identity #men

I can still count on one hand the number of men I`ve slept with. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#men

Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men. ↗

— Cammie McGovern

#prisons #men