#rap

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#biographies #book #books #doors #editor

Wisteria hangs over the eaves like clumps of ghostly grapes. Euphorbia's pale blooms billow like sea froth. Blood grass twists upward, knifing the air, while underground its roots go berserk, goosing everything in their path. A magnolia, impatient with vulvic flesh, erupts in front of the living room window. The recovering terrorist--holding a watering can filled with equal parts fish fertilizer and water, paisley gloves right up over her freckled forearms, a straw hat with its big brim shading her eyes, old tennis shoes speckled with dew--moves through her front garden. Her face, she tells herself, like a Zen koan. The look of one lip smiling. ↗

— Zsuzsi Gartner

#humor #self-image #violence #equality

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. ↗

— Lady Bird Johnson

#become #forget #something #up #wrapped

Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable. ↗

— Catharine A. MacKinnon

#marxism #rape #resistance #revolution #trauma

A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude. ↗

— Alexandra Kerry

#chooses #composition #course #devoid #emotions

Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#come #means #out #ready #tell

If nature abhors a vacuum, historiography loves a void because it can be filled with any number of plausible accounts; Howe, Nicholas, Anglo-Saxon England and the postcolonial void ↗

— Deanne Williams

#england #historiography #late-antiquity #narrativist #age

I think you're going to see a number of Democrats that do want to see us grapple with spending. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#going #grapple #i #i think #number

There is always frustration from people who work in schools that things keep changing but it is an unfortunate truth with the world of work changing as rapidly as it is, we do have to change. ↗

— Jim Knight

#change #changing #frustration #keep #people

As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin' to assassinate my character, that's impossible. You talkin' about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk. ↗

— Suge Knight

#always #anybody #as far as #assassinate #character