Quote of the Week

My father is black and Venezuelan. My mother is Irish and an opera singer. I am me.
--Mariah Carey

My comment:

I suspect Ms. Carey's comment would be more popular if it did not sound so much like the racial equivalent of "me no Alamo." If not "I'm all right, Jack."

Then again writer Matt Ruff expressed the contrary sentiment a lot better with this quote.

Movie Song of the Week: “Black Boys / White Boys”

On a brighter note, there's this excerpt from the 1979 movie musical Hair. I'm not sure why it took me so long to get around to posting this. One would think this musical salute to interracial love and/or lust would be an obvious favorite for a half-breed like myself. Well, it is, but geez, I can't post everything I like. At least, not all at once...

Besides, the people in this video say nothing at all about brown girls and guys and some of my best friends fall within that category. Oh, well, perhaps in the 2179 version...

Random Thoughts

Der Untergang des Abendlandes will not be televised.

Paris is worth a màs.

Without you, I am nothing. With you, I am less than nothing.

That's funny, you don't look prolish.

I'm in love with myself, but, alas, my affection is unrequited.

Is the heterosexual female scholar's equivalent of a Scholar's Mistress called a Scholar's Gigolo?

My love is like a red, red nose -- I hope I don't blow it.

Her dress was as red as her politics.

Help me, I think I'm fallen.

I've done my share of looking for love -- and lust -- in all the wrong places. In all the right places, too.

Scribo ergo sum. (I write; therefore, I am.)

Pobre Canada, so far from God and so close to the United States.

Demons thrive on silence.

The heart has its reasons of which political correctness knows nothing.

Mestizaje -- the choice of a new generation.

Almost everyone's life is like a soap opera. Some of us just have better storylines than others.

We may not choose with whom we fall in love but we do choose what we do about that love.

Almost everyone's life looks happy from the outside. It's how it looks from the inside that counts.

Normality is a state of mind.

Poverty, like war, is most easily glamourized by those who have never experienced it.

It's easy to love people you rarely see. It's when you see them all the time that the real test of love begins.

It's easy to love people you see as being perfect. It's loving people you see as being imperfect that's the real challenge.

There is no such thing as a golden age or a master race. All ages have their bad sides and no race is perfect.

If you cannot forgive imperfections in other people, then you will find yourself doomed the day you discover imperfections in yourself.

Quote of the Week

Of mixed ancestry, I felt from earliest childhood that America was the only home I could ever possibly call my own. I felt that it was expressedly founded for me, personally, and that it must be my first business in life to possess it.
--William Carlos Williams

Quotes I Like

La vida es sueño, y los sueños, sueños son.
(Life is a dream, and the dreams themselves are dreams.)
--Pedro Calderón de la Barca, La Vida Es Sueño

El sueño de la razón produce monstruos.
(The sleep of reason produces monsters.)
--caption to plate 43 of Francisco de Goya's “Caprichios”

Verte desnuda es recordar la Tierra.
(To see you naked is to recall the Earth.)
--Federico García Lorca, “Casida de la Mujer Tendida”

Pobre México, tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca de los Estados Unidos.
(Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the USA.)
--Porfirio Díaz

Mestizaje es grandeza.
(Mixture is greatness.)
--Spanish saying.

Mi raza es tu raza.
--Ed Morales, Living in Spanglish

I'm not the other. I am you.
--Ed Morales, Living in Spanglish