#la

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression. ↗

— Jack Dee

#came #depression #first #genuine #i

The thing that they were more freaked out was that I had done a spread for Playboy years before, and as Playboy always does, they exploit the exploitation and re-release different pictures. ↗

— Nina Blackwood

#before #different #does #done #exploit

My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats. ↗

— Kool Moe Dee

#break #chamber #echo #era #favorite

I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. It's not all about the cooking, but the fact that I can contribute by using my influence to help people all over the country. In the last two years, my partners and I have fed more than 10 million hungry people by bringing meat to food banks. ↗

— Paula Deen

#am #banks #bringing #contribute #cooking

I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic. If I'm going to eat that type of food, it's going to be the real deal. ↗

— Paula Deen

#butter #deal #eat #eating #food

People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions. ↗

— Joan Blades

#because #distributor #established #how #information

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

Without public pressure from caring people, our lawsuits will not be enough to stop this widespread abuse. ↗

— Morris Dees

#caring #enough #lawsuits #our #people

What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit? ↗

— Joan Blades

#biggest #blue-collar #bowl #deficit #dollar

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