Sarah

“... we exchanged chitchat for 5 1/2 hours about our respective children, about our ex-old men, all very, very heterocetera.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“The time will come when [his] memory will bring a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eyes.”
― Joe Biden, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

“The peoples of the Soviet Union, in many respects, impress me as people who can not yet afford to be honest. When they can be they will either blossom into a marvel or sink into decay. What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope. I think that in America there are certain kinds of problems and in Russia there are certain kinds of problems, but basically, when you find people who start from a position where human beings are at the core, as opposed to a position where profit is at the core, the solutions can be very different. I wonder how similar human problems will be solved. But I am not always convinced that human beings are at the core here, either, although there is more lip service done to that idea than in the U.S.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“Then let us have a language worthy of our world, a democratic style where rich and well-born nouns can roister with some sluttish verb yet find themselves content and uncomplained of. We want a diction which contains the quaint, the rare, the technical, the obsolete, the old, the lent, the nonce, the local slang and argot of the street, in neighborly confinement. Our tone should suit our time: uncommon quiet dashed with common thunder. It should be young and quick and sweet and dangerous as we are.”
― William H. Gass, Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife