#row

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#brown #i #impression #james #james brown

Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#being #feel #good #i #i feel

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#again #day #drowned #going #man

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#foreground #growing #i #into #life

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#borrow #hard #i #later #light

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#born #bus #certainty #crowds #four

A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes. ↗

— Ice T

#crowd #great #i #kids #know

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it. ↗

— Ice T

#cats #hip #hip hop #hop #i

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal. ↗

— Ice T

#go #got #growing #growing up #harden

If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system. ↗

— Bob Taft

#frozen #jobs #remain #system #tax