Ocupation: Cartoonist
Life: b. 1965
They praise these tiny indie bands, but if a band finally gets mainstream success, the same people who praised them attack them for 'selling out.' People often play at being nonconformists to mask their own feelings of not fitting in.
Topics: Play, People, Interesting, Not Fitting
The main thing I like about New Yorkers is that they understand that their lives are a relentless circus of horrors, ending in death. As New Yorkers, we realize this, we resign ourselves to our fate, and we make sure that everyone else is as miserable as we are. Good town.
Topics: Funny, Humor, Fate
How does a weaker minority dominate a physically superior majority? In my research I learned that this is accomplished by destroying the slave’s mind. More effective than whips and guns was the simple act of outlawing the teaching of slaves to read and to write.
source: - Kyle Baker (2015). “Nat Turner”, p.7, Abrams
Topics: Teaching, Writing, Gun, Whips
