I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.
I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.
I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.
So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.
Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, but I've played 'men's men,' if you will, characters that are simmering rage and calculated. There's a trend not to play anything that is opposed to that.
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
I do think being a prissy tomboy helps me in raising a son in general. I wrestle with him, play ball, play in the sandbox with him. As a mom, you get bruises, scrapes on your knee.
Success is hard in general for most women. We now have such busy lives, and we're told we can do everything - you know, we can have the relationship and the marriage and the kids and the career.
Chinese General: It's not in my best interest to say this Frank, but quitting while you're ahead, is not the same as quitting.
General Garrison: If we don't hold down this city we are gonna have 100 caskets to fill by morning.
Lt. General Horrocks: This is a story you will tell your grandchildren; and mightily bored they'll be.
Field Marshall Walther Model: Why do all my generals want to destroy my bridges?
Colonel Saito: Let me remind you of General Yamashita's motto: be happy in your work.
General Sternwood: I assume they have all the usual vices, besides those they've invented for themselves.
Of course I do not regret the Bond days, I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth I have always hated guns and what they represent.