- A man can’t ask for what he wants, he gotta earn it.
It’d look like he was demanding sex without an offer of marriage. Wojo wanted that very badly, which was why he don’t wanna ask for it. A man can’t ask for what he wants, he gotta earn it.
- A man oughta choose his own way
“Don’t let ya woman control you. She ain’t even ya woman, Smooches. You gettin’ distracted by potential skirt.”
- A man rises hisself to the situation at hand.
The one soldier who couldn’t quite live up to expectations was Samovich, who was skinny as a toothpick and sloppy as a bear. He couldn’t never do enough push-ups or clean his rifle proper-like or keep his bunk in good order. Whole dang unit got in a bad row of stumps again and again for ...
- A man shouldn’t be a virgin on his wedding day
Mr. Gregarian wanted Simon to go to church and to learn that pre-marital sex was wrong, and he wanted Simon to believe in all that stuff. But he wanted Simon to fuck a broad.
- A man’s gotta have composure
Vietnam was like a stencil in his mind, inscribing itself upon a’ry sensation that sat still long ’nuff.
- A nigga should fuck a ugly bitch sometimes. That’s what it means to keep it real.
“You done piss me off! And that’s why I is makin’ you go through with it,” Thumper said. That part weren’t true, he was always gonna make Rico do it. A nigga should fuck a ugly bitch sometimes. That’s what it means to keep it real. Niggas don’t explain, you gotsta figger it out.
- A peremptory conception of so-called manhood
T’was Buck’s turn to snort like a jaded pony and make a masturbatory hand gesture.
- Alyssa made him feel like he had a life ahead of him.
Back then, before all that went down, he was convinced Alyssa was who he should have been with all along.
- Authority was a double-edged sword
If word got out that nobody was protecting this beach, they would all come do and do the same thing. This area’d be crawling with gropers and rapists. None of the women’d be safe.
- Back before, ain’t no nigga button up a shirt. Not a proper nigga anyway.
Carson wore a nice shirt he buttoned up like a white man. Or maybe niggas did that now, shit’s bullshit.
- Big Eddie’s shoulders were soaked in sweat and splattered in grease
American barbecue tasted wrong if cooked by a clean man or any kind of woman.
- Can’t take action when you’s bothered up hot, bawling like a waterfall.
A man’s gotta keep his nose up, no matter what. Women cry and go limp when they get in a bad situation. A man’s gotta take action. Can’t take action when you’s bothered up hot, bawling like a waterfall.
- Commitment
Women do that, they eat quick if they’re gonna dump you so they can leave right away if things get awkward. She did kiss him goodbye, but sometimes women do that, they do kiss a fellah after dumping him. Wojo done misread the signals on that before.
- constituates
A wife constituates half the puzzle men is commanded to complete.
- Craving sin was just as much a sin as committing it
He’d be able to afford a proper wedding and a home on a farm, and he could build a life with her, a godly life.
- Dimples cute as a baby otter
omen expect a nigga to make ‘em happy, so if a nigga is glum, she gonna think he won’t ever make her happy.
- He gotsta get a grip on hisself, and a man gotsta do that alone.
The world seemed right before the war, right in a way he couldn’t perceive then or articulate now. Expectations done broke, he thought. Goose went to war, he pulled the appropriate trigger at appropriate times, he followed orders mostly, he came back alive, he got money, he gave it to a woman to spend. He ...
- He kept one hand covering his crotch
The gym bros were a bunch of macho chads with chins and shoulders and big swinging penises that flopped between their legs like sausages too thick for their casings. His just sort of poked out like an escaping worm. He felt shriveled.
- He knew he was gonna look like a spoilsport, but he don’t care, Wojo was raised proper.
“You shouldn’t talk about women like that,” Wojo said. He knew he was gonna look like a spoilsport, but he don’t care, Wojo was raised proper. He’s a Christian. “It’s disrespec’ful.”
- He was looking at it like he always wanted one. Prolly got a wife who don’t like motorcycles. Women mostly don’t, in Goose’s experience.
After a minute or two of recompositioning hisself, Goose reckoned Mister Jones was serious about liking the motorcycle. He was looking at it like he always wanted one. Prolly got a wife who don’t like motorcycles. Women mostly don’t, in Goose’s experience.
- I ain’t bullyin’ no one. You a grown man. Kinda.
You spend all day telling them how to spend their life just so you can go home to what I’m guessing is a sad little apartment all by yourself, microwave a sad little TV dinner, lift your little weights like a fucking convict. Hey, how much furniture do you have that isn’t a bench press?
- I don’wanna say what it taste like, cuz you’re a girl.
He paused before blurting out, “They got flavored popcorn too. But don’t get the green… uh… matchoo. Gross. Tastes like… well, I don’wanna say what it taste like, cuz you’re a girl.” He blushed and looked down, then bit his lip and corrected himself. “Woman.”
- If you a man, you gotta protect yaself
“If you a man, you gotta protect yaself. If you can’t, you either pay someone else to or you ain’t gonna be protected,” he said. “Ain’t nothin’ wrong wit’ payin’ for protection.”
- It makes a black man look handsomer, makes a white man look weaker
Lamont drank the frou-frou.
- Jacking off is only okay if you got hard accidentally and needed to do it to “relieve an erection”
Bill was all about erections — he said a man shouldn’t be guided by lust, and jacking off too much was being guided by lust.
- Kareem should just get tougher, if his bootyhole hurts too bad
A real man handled his shit and ain’t avoid a fight from a bigger man, Buck do say. He knew that was easy for him to say, as he was the bigger man in every interaction. But still, a man shouldn’t run.
- Lace-fried fluff
Must everything be castrated down to parasitic orchids, soft edges and understated wallpaper?
- Like making out under an unfinished statue
Wojo don’t mind a gold-digger. So long as she loves him, she can spend all the money, he don’t care. Just give him an allowance to buy lunch every day at work. Couplea shirts at Christmas. That’s all he needs.
- Mr. Gregarian said that was how he wanted his boys raised
Mr. Gregarian only wanted his daughter Miriam to live up to the expectations of Armenian Orthodox Christianity. He wanted his sons to pretend to.
- Old ladies is oown this Earth to dis’pprove
“Her mama ain’t nevuh gunna like nuffin’. That’s how women is, dummy. Old ladies is oown this Earth to dis’pprove.”
- On the code of the good man
A good man’s code was ’bout defending women ‘gainst the fellers who ain’t got the good man’s code. Sometimes even the men who talked like they respected women was the ones who least respect ’em.
- On the downlow
Raython’s father had a lot of similar rules, different things that made someone a real man or not.
- On uncrustables
It’s the single limpest-dick thing to ever exist.
- One craves the vitality of man
It is that fact that feels raw and acute in women of a certain age.
- Only washed-up old men was former anythings.
He just might got love in his heart for her. He wanna go the whole way right now, tell her he loves her, propose to her, marry her, have a buncha kids with her. If there was a button he could press to make all that happen, he’d do it in an instant! Bet!But there ...
- Rocky could turn the wives out on their backs
A man who couldn’t pay his debt ain’t enough of a man to defend his wife either.
Rocky wasn’t like that. He was no rapist.
- She won’t get less played-out over time
A man shouldn’t tear up over a female, not even his daughter. What kinda bullshit is that?
- T’is on the nearest man to handle reality.
For sure all the parkbodies thunk he shoulda been here, strong enough to control his household like a man, he shoulda been watching over Ellen, providing for her so she don’t gotta sling her cat for horse.
- The bartender was an old lady, not even a proper bartender neither
A man shouldn’t drink in a place with a cartoon mascot, Tyrell thought, eyeing the big-eyed giraffe on the wall.
- The good Lord above wants you to take a risk.
Men must risk, so that women don’t have to.
- The worst thing a man can do to a woman is respond to her provocations
That was the whole point of filling a cantina with beautiful women in skimpy clothes, after all. They were here to tantalize and tease. Ernie was a deadbeat not because he stared but because he did not hide it. The worst thing a man can do to a woman is respond to her provocations.
- Trivia ante momentum
Trivia ante momentum is the motto of womanhood, after all, and garden parties were the height of feminimity.
- Warriors need a woman to come home to
Koa was big and tough, brimming with machismo and power, all traits that women here liked — but he was too much of all those things. He was so big he’d hurt any woman he was with, and he was too crude to be seductive or charming. But he was exactly the kind of man ...
- What happened to the days when college boys lifted weights?
It looked like a Nickelodeon show had exploded, with perky young bodies and skinny arms everywhere, haircuts more complex than any man had a right to.
- what was the point of being a man if you can’t keep your little lady from hooking it?
And he felt bad that he felt good about leaving. He gotsta skedaddle while the heat was on. And he gotsta go less he lose control of his fists again. That boy ain’t a wall, and the lady ain’t a soldier.
- Without men, women holds each other down like a bucket of frogs.
A man falls apart like a jigsaw puzzle; a woman falls apart like shattered glass. Without women, men holds each other together like log cabins. Without men, women holds each other down like a bucket of frogs.
- Wojo thought women should be princesses, not whores. No, queens!
Prostitutes were merely a warm orifice for a man to use and abuse, that manhood required utilization and hierarchy to embody itself lest its precariousness lead to subordination and that empathy for fallen women marked a man as weak and vincible.
- women done spent the last thirty-four years coming up with innovative and unattractive things to do to they eyebrows
The jawn was bumping. It was nice that they ain’t gotta walk nowhere, just go down the stairs and boop, there they was, in Lipsweet, surrounded by girls in tight things that showed off they other things. They got asses too!Girls got nice asses now! Asses got better in the thirty-four years Thumper was in ...
- Young men are drowning in a male-strum of toxic cities
He done share prison cells with lotta handsome young things like Rico, with tasteful muscles and cute tattoos and a tight ass you could bounce a kitten off of.
- Youthful men froth forth
Young ladies immanently shrink from the freedom of the future, while youthful men froth forth with the vigors of the eternal now, yet elder women tendrilously transcend their present and old men are bound by their pasts.
