Grinning Cat

“I say if you’re going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall. TOBY KEITH”
― Hayley Faiman, Filthy Secret

“Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.

Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.”
― Jim Carroll

“There are at least two things someone can do to convince me to never take them seriously: (a) engage in bad-faith arguments about people being “canceled” when what they’re really referring to is people being called out and/or held accountable for their actions, and (b) accuse someone of “making everything about race” merely for pointing out something racist.”
― Aisha Harris, Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me – A New York Times Best Read and Cultural Critic's Essays on Nineties Black Identity