Dear Black Man Quotes

#1. You can't make me mad by calling me names that are true. Certainly I'm a rascal, and why not? It's a free country and a man may be a rascal if he chooses. It's only hypocrites like you, my dear lady, just as black at heart but trying to hide it, who becomes enraged when called by their right names.

Margaret Mitchell

#2. It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.

John Darnielle

#3. I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this was the first conversation of my life that concerned a book, and 'the life of the mind' - and now, such subjects have become my life.

Joyce Carol Oates

#4. Faith is like a muscle. If you didn't use it, you lose it.

A.C. Kret

#5. Every recording session and tour is a very valuable time to me in terms of getting to spend time with the musicians - whether they're friends and family or people I've just met - because I don't have a job where I get to interact with people everyday.

Will Oldham

#6. By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

Honore De Balzac

#7. The real essence of your distinctive footprints may least be felt in your presence and much more in your absence

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. For a man to say, "I have to leave work now because I need to do something with my kids," it's sometimes viewed as a career killer. He doesn't have the right drive. So when they depart from their gender roles, they face some of the same restrictions.

Gloria Steinem

#9. There's fear that keeps you safe, and fear that warns you, and then there's fear of another sort. The kind that makes you turn on your friends, that irises the world down to one frightened person.

Margaret Ronald

#10. World Christians are heaven's expatriates, camping where the Kingdom is best served.

David Bryant

#11. The way to peace, harmony and balance for the planet is through the loving kindness of each individual heart.

Laurence Overmire

#12. I have a keen sense of the oblivious

Josh Stern

#13. One day, everything will be like before again. And it is not like it.

Raymond Chandler

#14. My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.

Cornel West

#15. People will live their lives with or without a king to command them. It is the king who cannot live without his people.

Fuyumi Ono

#16. The old wives' tale about cold showers is false: blasting your body with a couple gallons of ice water doesn't make you any less horny. It just makes you horny and cold.

Nenia Campbell