Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.
Sometimes he curses his fumbling English. Sometimes he curses other people who can’t understand the beauty of his Spanish when he speaks it, how eloquent and romantic his mind can be. Instead, he has to settle for this stumbling grammar and these inadequate words. Even though Jimenez speaks it well, he feels his ideas become trapped in a cage of English. He finds the language very practical, but it’s not made for the same beauty as his mother tongue.
what’s funny to me about how shitty white people are about pretending to be black on the internet is not only how hilariously bad they always are at it, but at the fact that, if it were the other way around, i know we wouldn’t suck as hard at it? it’s rare i’ve seen an impersonation of a white person that wasn’t spot fucking on and i’d know cause i’ve been in majority white spaces my entire life and i guess it shows you how little white people know or care to know about black people, even when they’re actually trying to sound like one
