Bryant Evans

“The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Arguably: Selected Essays

“cultivation of the hard skills, while failing to develop the moral and emotional faculties down below. Children are coached on how to jump through a thousand scholastic hoops. Yet by far the most important decisions they will make are about whom to marry and whom to befriend, what to love and what to despise, and how to control impulses. On these matters, they are almost entirely on their own. We are good at talking about material incentives, but bad about talking about emotions and intuitions. We are good at teaching technical skills, but when it comes to the most important things, like character, we have almost nothing to say.”
― David Brooks, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources Of Love, Character, And Achievement

“We have the power to choose narratives in which we absolve ourselves of guilt and blame everything on conspiracies or others.”
― David Brooks, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources Of Love, Character, And Achievement

“So what are you gonna say at my funeral, now that you've killed me? Here lies the body of the love of my life, whose heart I broke without a gun to my head. Here lies the mother of my children, both living and dead. Rest in peace, my true love, who I took for granted. Most bomb p*ssy who, because of me, sleep evaded. Her god listening. Her heaven will be a love without betrayal. Ashes to ashes, dust to side chicks.”
― Beyonce