"Anybody can be nobody, but it takes a man to be somebody."

-- Eugene V. Debs

#Greatness Quotes #Men Quotes

“I always felt different as a kid, and the Kinks were like, 'Yeah, we're the Kinks.' Celebrate your difference; don't be afraid of your sense of humor, or your personality, or who you are. It emboldened me.”
“Sometimes the things that hurt are worth the pain.”
“I wasn’t old enough to realize that I could be my terrible self and have people love me for that.”
“I'm getting old! My back hurts, I got asthma, I just been listening to Amy Winehouse, trying not to cry. Life's crazy.”

Source : "Interview: Summertime '16 With Vince Staples". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.
“Among liberals and Democrats, there is this notion that the poor - especially the black poor - can do no wrong. If you criticize any poor and black person who displays inappropriate, boorish or egregiously bad conduct, you'll be dismissed as a racist if you're not black. And as an Uncle Tom or sellout if you are.”
“The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.”
“What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.”
“I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.”

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