NOW interview (2004)
Context: The ripeness was a letter that John Keats wrote to his brother who emigrated to America describing what it was like to have a peach or piece of a peach in his mouth. And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it. Let it go through your palette. Let it lie on your tongue. Let it melt a little bit. Let it run from the corners. It's like describing the most incredible sex orgy. And then, you bite. But, it must be so ripe. It must be so delicious. In other words, you must not waste a second of this deliciousness which for him was life and being a great poet. That you savor every, everything that happened. I want to get ripe.
“How delicious is being boricua!”
¡Qué rico es ser boricua!
"Boricua el mejor cantante de Bélgica" http://www.primerahora.com/XStatic/primerahora/template/espnota.aspx?n=177121&ms=boricuazo, primerahora.com (2008-04-09)
Original
¡Qué rico es ser boricua!
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Related quotes
“How Human beings are, that is how the society will be.”
The Times of India, 10 June 2009
Sourced from newspapers and magazines
Context: How Human beings are, that is how the society will be. So, creating human beings who are flexible and willing to look at everything rather than being stuck in their ideas and opinions definitely makes for a different kind of society. And the very energy that such human being carry will influence everything around them.
“If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.”
Pt. 1, Ch. 5
Christine (1983)
“Being Irish is, no matter how real, a pose.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“How can you not be an antisemite, being a socialist!”
"Why We Are Anti-Semites," August 15, 1920 speech in Munich at the Hofbräuhaus. Translated from Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 16. Jahrg., 4. H. (Oct., 1968), pp. 390-420. Edited by Carolyn Yeager. https://carolynyeager.net/why-we-are-antisemites-text-adolf-hitlers-1920-speech-hofbr%C3%A4uhaus
1920s
Context: Since we are socialists, we must necessarily also be antisemites because we want to fight against the very opposite: materialism and mammonism… How can you not be an antisemite, being a socialist!
“How to be a good fellow without being a fool.”
Four Minute Essays Vol. 7 (1919), A School for Living
"Compromise, Hell!" Orion magazine (November/December 2004) http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/147/.
Context: We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers? Why else would we all — by proxies we have given to greedy corporations and corrupt politicians — be participating in its destruction? Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it. We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our cistern are wealthier than the rest of us.
How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.
Source: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 3, Tools of Normative Analysis, p. 42