"Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a good man,' your problem isn't what kind of woman THEY are. Your problem is what kind of men YOU are."

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Source : Pearl Cleage (2011). “Just Wanna Testify: A Novel”, p.148, One World

Pearl Cleage

#Men Quotes #Good Man Quotes #Kind Quotes

“The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.”
“I don't think you're human unless you go through some [self-destructi on].”
“Change is a constant. Anything you get attached to will one day be gone.”
“We can create the sensation of community through the accrual of actions, and that's often the clichÃ©d way that storytelling is talked about, as someone taking a solo, and that's great for lots of reasons. But I don't really like to feel like I'm forced to listen to it in a certain way, or that there is one master reading of performance. I think what we want from performance is multiplicity, which is lots of ways in and through it, because it's for lots of people, and it was created by lots of people, often.”
“It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.”
“All objects lose by too familiar a view.”
“Being one point ahead at the end - that's all that matters.”
“Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.”

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