“ I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
What it do when it pissed off? I ast.
Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
— The Color Purple by Alice Walker
“ It? I ast.
Yeah, It. God ain’t a he or a she, but a It.
But what do it look like? I ast.
Don’t look like nothing, she say. It ain’t a picture show. It ain’t something you can look at apart from anything else, including yourself. I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you’ve found it.
— The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Rihanna has said no to ever posing nude for Playboy. Although I wished she had given a better excuse for refusing - she said her mum would kill her if she did it - I am pleased she said no… maybe more will follow her example?
“ I got my feet on the ground & I don’t go to sleep to dream
You got your head in the clouds
You’re not at all what you seem
— Sleep to Dream (Fiona Apple)
“ To know yet to think one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
— Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching, Book Two, LXXI, 173
I watched the finale of Extras last night, & although it wasn’t the best episode I’ve seen, I loved Andy Millman’s (Ricky Gervais) dig at Big Brother & other reality crap. He likened those kinds of programmes to Victorian freakshows & said that they were the kind of programmes where you “hand in your dignity at the door”. Too right!
