#experience

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration. ↗

— Barbara Smith

#consideration #enough #entity #experience #important

My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did. ↗

— Emmitt Smith

#experience #get #get married #go #i

I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school. ↗

— Brittany Snow

#bullied #committed #experience #fair #fair share

My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#black #did #experience #gee #grandmother

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion. ↗

— Tony Snow

#confusion #experiences #express #fear #generally

I really only ever go on sun holidays so in my experience I prepare myself for the beach. ↗

— Lisa Snowdon

#ever #experience #go #holidays #i

Now when I see something beautiful or funny or sweet, sometimes I reach for my camera, but other times I think, 'I need to let this moment exist. I don't have to capture everything. I just want to experience it.' ↗

— Leelee Sobieski

#camera #capture #everything #exist #experience

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#analogy #art #commentary #criticism #even

Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#city #experience #giant #going #i

I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out of focus, and somebody put the perfect glasses on me, and all of a sudden I could see everything. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#could #everything #experience #focus #glasses