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So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.
- Don Cheadle
It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
- George Bernard Shaw
autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.
- George Eliot
The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
- GK Chesterton
Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.
- Gloria Steinem
The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.
- Malcolm X
The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!
- Malcolm X
When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.
- Marilyn Monroe
I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.
- Muhammad Ali
God had no problem with the man's separateness, his uniqueness, or his wholeness.
- Myles Munroe
Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.
- Pierre Corneille
The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson