#labels

You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels. ↗

— Billy Sherwood

#bad #days #good #good and bad #i

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels. ↗

— Patti Smith

#labels #resistant #traditionally

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#bottled #essence #labels #names #our

What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.' ↗

— David R. Brower

#doing #even #hide #instance #labels

When everything was laid out before her, she felt safe, loved even. She was always trying to be more organized than she was. She knew it was weird and blamed her mother, with the lists and notes she’d leave whenever she and Dad went out of town. The labeled dinners in the freezer and the 20 emergency numbers on the phone showed she cared, even when absent, she cared. ↗

— Victoria Kahler

#lists #ocd #organization #love

Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#manners #hurt

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#lunacy #liberalism

When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm black, when I die I'm black, and you... when you're born you're pink, when you grow up you're white, when you're cold you're blue, when you're sick you're blue, when you die you're green and you dare call me colored ↗

— Oglala Lakota

#racism #racism

Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me. ↗

— Skeet Ulrich

#labels #me #nothing #pinned #whatever

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#find #genre #help #insofar #labels