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it’s February and the most important thing is just making it through this day with some basic level of energy intact.
We’ve forgotten how important silence can be. It’s room to let our thoughts settle. Usually, we talk our way through everything and think about it later. Maybe that’s why we so often say things we come to regret.
Anyone who gives you food is also giving you love.
The city is harsh and brutal, but also action-packed and fantastic.
That’s one thing that can be said for the South: neither slavery nor the Klan could destroy the hospitality.
The world will treat you with the same amount of respect as you treat yourself.
Some things have changed, but that goddamn racism in the South—it lives on.”
Rap music radiates an attitude of you may trample us down, but you can never shut us up.
You might call Reagan the godfather of gangster rap.
She lived to be one hundred and two and died in 1966. She was a tough one. No one dared to speak up to her. She could quarter a chicken with her bare hands. I’ve never seen anyone else do that. When she spoke, you listened.
We humans may have endless plans, schedules, ideas, and desires, but death can step right in and put an end to everything. In the middle of a sentence.
Soul is the same as feeling, and the feeling has to be right, or else neither music nor food will work.
Generations of inherited poverty and hopelessness have destroyed people’s souls.
My closest friends say I am way too prone to guilt. That I bring a ton of anguish upon myself for no reason. But how the fuck do you avoid it?
The United States has about 5 percent of the world’s population but almost 25 percent of the world’s prisoners.
agriculture has been replaced by tourism and slavery by a low-wage workforce.
The fact that so many have been robbed of their civil rights and the opportunity for decent employment is evidence that many states in the US still have an oppressed lower class not unlike the one that existed during the time of slavery.
In Grandpa’s world, there was no such thing as an existential crisis. Anxiety and depression were something for the more privileged classes.
Skin color is more than just a broad palette of pigmentation.
