Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don't aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety in his soul.
A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist.
Every man love to see a world full of women and girls; even if it costs him killing every man in the world.
The presence of confidence can make an unable man appear able. While its absence can make an able man appear unable.
Generally, a woman would rather be married to any man that she doesn’t hate, than remain unmarried to a man that she loves.
To a man, a woman is fun to be with … until she gains weight. To a woman, a man is fun to live with … until he loses his job.
Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
The man whose acquaintance with the world does not lead him deeper than science leads him, will never understand what it is that the man with the spiritual vision finds in these natural phenomena.
When God made Man he made no mistakes, He knew man would make those for himself". ~ R. Alan Woods [2012]
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
If a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame him.
In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.
The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.
Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.
I'm a man who believes that I died 20 years ago. And I live like a man who is dead already. I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything.
A wise man is able to differentiate between humility and weakness, he does not mistake courage for pride.
