The Bush Administration, And Particularly Bush's Chief Political Strategist And Deputy Chief Of Staff, Karl Rove, Have Been Expert In Both Galvanizing And Mobilizing The Fears And Resentments Of People. A Good Part Of Their Politics Consists Of Being Against Others Who Are Defined In Stereotypical Terms. These Others Don't, In Actual Reality, Exist. The So-called Democratic Elitists, For Example, Are A Stereotype Who They Can Hate. Anyone Who Watches Fox News Or Listens To Rush Limbaugh Knows That This Hatred Of The Other Is At The Core Of Their Politics.
I Like One Hair, Tuna Fish, The Smell Of Rain And Things That Are Pink. I Hate Pimples, Baked Potatoes, When My Mother's Mad, And Religious Holidays.
I Hate First Drafts, And It Never Gets Easier. People Always Wonder What Kind Of Superhero Power They'd Like To Have. I Wanted The Ability For Someone To Just Open Up My Brain And Take Out The Entire First Draft And Lay It Down In Front Of Me So I Can Just Focus On The Second, Third And Fourth Drafts.
Twiddle-twiddle Away At My Softly Clicky Keyboard For A While, Making Twiddly Adjustments All Along- And Then Print What I Have Twiddled. Glare At The Printout And Snarl And Curse And Scribble Almost Illegibly All Over It With A Ballpoint Pen. Go Back To The Machine And Enter The Scribbles. Repeat This Procedure Until I Hate The Very Meaning Of Every Word I Know.
I Love It. I Hate That Word (fatherhood), But I Love Being A Father; It's Changed Everything In So Many Ways.
I Won't Say He [shakespeare] 'invented' Us, Because Journalists Perpetually Misunderstand Me On That. I'll Put It More Simply: He Contains Us. Our Ways Of Thinking And Feeling-about Ourselves, Those We Love, Those We Hate, Those We Realize Are Hopelessly 'other' To Us-are More Shaped By Shakespeare Than They Are By The Experience Of Our Own Lives.
It's Not That I Literally Think I'm A Fearie. It's Just That I Feel So Different From Most People. And This Idea Of A Race Living Underground In Caverns, Spending All Their Days Dancing And Playing The Fiddle And Eating Flowers And Reciting Poetry And Sharing Their Dreams, That To Me Sounds Much More Real Than The Way People Live In This World, Hating And Fighting And Wanting And Hurting.
I Used To Think I Was Ugly. I Thought I Looked Like A Camel. A Person Who Doesn't Love Themselves, They Will See Anything That Pops Up On Their Face. I've Seen Squirrels, I've Seen A Bird, And I've Seen All Kinds Of Animals On My Face. But That Is The Result Of Self-hate. I've Learned To Say: 'you Know What? I Am A Beautiful Black Woman'.
You Can Hate Me. You Can Go Out There And Say Anything You Want About Me, But You Will Love Me Later Because I Told You The Truth.
I Hate That People Think Going To The Theatre Is A Special Occasion. I Wish People Would Treat It As Normally As Going To The Cinema.
