Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind
Looking at the media today, I'm quite ashamed of myself, of things I've participated in. Everything is marketed to sex and gossip and it's just a shame that those are the things at the forefront, on people's minds, those are the things that make you popular, what you have on or how little you have on and it has nothing to do with music, nothing to do with sports it has nothing to do with the things so many communities put their faith in. It's just a sad place to be.
Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.
I dabble in the jazz world, which is male-dominated. If you had two women playing together, it became a shtick. It becomes a "girl group," and it has to be something cutesy. That's hard to contend with.
Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.
Your yes means nothing if you can't say no.
We have just decided we have to have everything for free. And I think we're starting to pay for it in terms of our mental states.
It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.
America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude, or that any human being aspires to live at the mercy of bullies. . . . . . . Liberty will come to those who love it.
A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when he asks a very remarkable young lady to do him the honor of marrying him. And - 'he somehow contrived to grin at me wickedly, 'I usually get what I want, Miss Grahame,' he added, and pitched over in a tangled heap on the floor.