#hip

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level. ↗

— Jay-Z

#music #poetry #rap #music

It’s a little early in our relationship for us to be ‘surmounting,’ but, hey, I’m game if you are. I’ll even let you be on top.” He looked directly at me, a coy smile playing on his lips. ↗

— Stacey Marie Brown

#humor #paranormal-romance #quotes #stacey-marie-brown #relationship

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music. ↗

— Jay-Z

#music #rap #music

Revolting’ was the last word I ever spoke as someone who’d never kissed a girl. ↗

— David Mitchell

#relationships #relationship

I was going for the devious smile that would suddenly light up his face each time he'd read my mind, when all I really wanted was skin, just skin. ↗

— André Aciman

#relationship

the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment. ↗

— Jim Goad

#country-music #hippies #woody-guthrie #music

All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony. I don't have to tell you that. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#relationships #music

When both our inner man and woman takes responsibility for themselves and lives their own truth, a joy and love begins to flow naturally between them. Healing means to develop the inner man and woman so that love can flow between them. Healing is to learn to love both our inner man and woman. It is to learn to live the truth of both the inner man and woman. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#female #healing #inner-man-and-woman #joy #love

I took your name when I took those vows I meant 'em back then and I mean 'em right now. ↗

— The Band Perry

#music-lyrics #relationships #music

I used to love you. But now, I loved you even more. ↗

— Kate Racho

#relationships #love