Charlamagne tha God Quotes

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then, all of sudden, you have something to protect.

Everybody told me to be a man. Nobody told me how.

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.

Wear what you want to wear. Do what you want to do. Be who you are. Pick out your own clothes. Be a man. And if that's too much to ask, as it almost always is for me, think of someone you consider to be a man and pretend to be like him. I pretend to be like my dad.

I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.

It's upsetting to be a man in our society.

The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her.

When you're a man you try and be macho.

I play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did.

She didn't break his heart, but I feel like a man is supposed to be a man, he ain't supposed to be all involved in that. That's why she got sisters and friend for. Just show up with the ring and act right.

I like being able to be a man.

I'm not really a relationship expert but... I'm an expert on manhood and what men think.

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

I think that even though my father wasn't there, in his death and in his memory, he has been a mentor to me in my manhood because my mom couldn't teach me how to be a man.

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.

We can't have a world without violence, because the world is half male.

Growing up, we tend to challenge each other. We've got to be the toughest, the strongest, the bravest men that we can be. And for many of us, myself included, our identities are wrapped up in whether or not at the end of the day we feel like we're man enough.

A boy needs a male figure, and the girls do, too. Somebody to discipline them and make them be a man.

I got a lot of flak; in Texas, football is not only the social thing you must do, but you do it also to prove your manhood. They all couldn't conceive of why I'd want to stop to do 'The Importance of Being Earnest.'

The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful.

If you're not the guy who is going to puff your chest out like a rooster and go fight somebody, our society discards you.

You can do a hell of a film if you can understand what it is to be a man in America.

To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!