#iv

I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard. ↗

— Paula Deen

#am #american #american dream #dream #exists

I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion. ↗

— Joan Blades

#activist #i #more #myself #occasion

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. ↗

— John Updike

#ever #innocence #innocent #knows #lives

The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years. ↗

— Paula Deen

#bed #calculate #calories #consuming #did

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent. ↗

— Joan Blades

#given #manifesto #motherhood #mothers #need

Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary. ↗

— Mos Def

#followers #freaks #me #obsessive #out

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations. ↗

— Mos Def

#art #cheering #collect #dormant #functional

But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent. ↗

— Mos Def

#decent #deserve #even #halfway #live

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on. ↗

— Mos Def

#built #cultivated #culture #def #done

That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension. ↗

— Mos Def

#clear #dimension #draw #i #new