Male Figures Quotes

We have to have positive male role models.

Our boys need to look up to older people around them, especially male figures, to be able to express their full person and potential, but that is only possible if they are raised in a culture that celebrates men and women with the same equal rights, freedoms and respect.

I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.

I definitely had very strong male figures in my life, who, when I look back, clearly laid the foundations to who I am.

I don't think I've ever come to terms with not having had a father around, and that's why I made so many mistakes with men.

Our only teachers and role models for our young men cannot be, you know, videos, and, the hip hop community.

It must have meant something, though, that at this turn of my life I grabbed up a book. Because it was in books that I would find, for the next few years, my lovers. They were men, not boys. They were self-possessed and sardonic, with a ferocious streak in them, reserves of gloom.