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One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture that is why suburban children want rap music.
Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Male initiation does not move toward machoism on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.
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I saw Sophia Loren - the Italian woman with those wonderful cheekbones - in a movie the other day. She must have had 24 face-lifts, and she looks like an alien, as if she weren't from this world at all. Her Italian wrinkles would have been a thousand times more beautiful.
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If a man, cautious, hides his limp, Somebody has to limp it! Things do it the surroundings limp. House walls get scars, the car breaks down matter, in drudgery, takes it up.
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We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.
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