Thoughts can hurt like real pain.
Some truth has no nourishment in it.
I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.
And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.
That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.
Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on ourselves.