Maya Angelou?
Zoe: Nobody's saying that, sir. Wash: Yeah, we're pretty much just giving each other significant glances and laughing incessantly.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Dana - Aug 04, 2010 3:43:28 pm PDT #11814 of 28343
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Aims - Aug 04, 2010 3:43:39 pm PDT #11815 of 28343
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Maya Angelou?
Aims - Aug 04, 2010 3:43:54 pm PDT #11816 of 28343
Shit's all sorts of different now.
t terrorist fist bump with Dana
Dana - Aug 04, 2010 3:44:12 pm PDT #11817 of 28343
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
We should go get gay married in California.
Hil R. - Aug 04, 2010 3:44:34 pm PDT #11818 of 28343
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Maya Angelou?
Aims - Aug 04, 2010 3:44:55 pm PDT #11819 of 28343
Shit's all sorts of different now.
We should. And bring Hil.
Typo Boy - Aug 04, 2010 3:45:13 pm PDT #11820 of 28343
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Yeah. Really a brain fart to mentally block on Maya Angelou. Much worse than not remembering Doris Lessing. If I can't remember William Shakespeare I'll really start worrying.
Typo Boy - Aug 04, 2010 3:59:58 pm PDT #11821 of 28343
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Now trying to remember the skin color description - Caramel, and bitter chocolate and cocoa with milk. Not exactly those but a whole list of ways to describe the variety of skin tones.
Typo Boy - Aug 04, 2010 4:43:13 pm PDT #11822 of 28343
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Still not remembering the poem. Maybe I never heard the title. Mayou read it out loud while being interviewed. She wrote it as a lighthearted piece when a white friend was describing a black friend and either did not know any words to describe skin tone or was too scared to describe skin tone to a Black person. So Maya Angelou wrote a whole poem explaining how to describe different skin shades "Mocha with a swirl" that sort of thing. When she read it she got that purr in her voice she sometimes get when she's reading something playful instead of something somber.
Connie Neil - Aug 04, 2010 6:11:44 pm PDT #11823 of 28343
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There's a poem by a black man, I think, describing talking to a landlady on the phone who wanted to know how black he was before agreeing to rent to him. It ends with him saying wouldn't it be simpler if he just came over?