#som

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me. ↗

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#better #customers #doctrine #forgetting #got

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#been #both #brainwashed #confederate #ethnic

Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose? ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#boundaries #enclose #i #i write #know

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but. ↗

— Lou Reed

#created #doubt #great #i #know

I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it. ↗

— Lou Reed

#believed #i #i always #important #said

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say. ↗

— Lou Reed

#believe #got #i #say #something

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else. ↗