You don’t need to contort yourself. Claim specificity rather than superiority. Don’t say “I am the best at … ” Or even the humble-pie version of that. Use the phrase “I am at my best when … ” And then describe in detail the sorts of
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“Our task...isn't to save Trump voters. It isn't to convince them to give up their views that white people ought to matter more than others. Our task is to build a world where such a view has no place or quarter to breathe. I'm aware that this is a radical, some may even say dangerous, claim. It amounts to throwing away a large portion of the country, many of whom are willing to defend their positions with violence. But we cannot give in to these people. We know what the result will be. And I cannot watch another generation of Black children bear the burden of that choice.”
― Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
― Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
“Tucker highlights that 'white names and sensibilities are used as lube for the ears and sensibilities of white audiences dying to be penetrated by Black experience'.”
― Camp!: The Story of the Attitude that Conquered the World
― Camp!: The Story of the Attitude that Conquered the World
“If you were to intuitively frame a picture of what you think you might be doing twelve to eighteen months from now, or what the nature of your job will look like at that point, what would that trigger?”
― Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
― Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
“There is a moment following tragedy that some people never get to experience. You have to be ready for it or it will crush you to dust. It's like a window flung open and naked to the day. It's like being lifted away. It's like being stranded with everything you need. It's the moment you call a cornfield beautiful because you mean it, because you've never seen the world like this before, because newness no longer strikes terror but rather brings hope. You jerk awake into it like meeting yourself on a blind date. You surrender to that sudden first rush of joy without consequence, no more doom or fear or guilt, surrender to the sheer devastating presence of life, huge and indifferent, pushing into you like God's breath.”
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“Homosexuals tend to identify with suffering. They are a persecuted group and they understand suffering. And so does Garland. She's been through fire and lived - all the drinking and divorcing, all the pills and all the men, all the poundage come and gone - rothers and sisters, she knows.”
― Camp!: The Story of the Attitude that Conquered the World
― Camp!: The Story of the Attitude that Conquered the World
Silver Screen Book Club
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For anyone interested in black and white movies, actors from the dawn of film through the 1960s, or the culture of the era, this is the book club for ...more
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