Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both.

Tommy moved on. "Lash, your people have been oppressed for hundreds of years. It's time to strike back. Look, you don't have your MBA yet - they haven't completely juiced you of your usefulness yet. Would Martin Luther King back down from this challenge? Malcolm X? James Brown? Don't you have a dream? Don't you feel good, like you knew that you would, now?

Nobody's perfect... Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him.

You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.

Which is why you chose to wear that delightful ensemble from the skank-wear collection at Hoes-n-Thangs?" -Tommy

She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference.

I think I'm what they call a never-was.