A lot of people have been sharing and responding to Shay Amamiya’s videos (she is a Black internet creator with Tourette’s) and she posted this today because of how much her words have been twisted/used to further fan flames/create harassment towards her, and it is affecting her mentally.
Shirley Povich from 1962, with the most immaculate burn ever on the Redskins vile owner George Preston Marshall, the last NFL owner to insist on an all white roster: "Jim Brown, born ineligible to play for the Redskins, integrated their end zone three times yesterday." RIP WaPo.
I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal, more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire, these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.
“I AM THE VAMPIRE LESTAT YOU ARE HERE FOR THE GRAND SABBAT BUT I PITY YOU YOUR LOT.
I grabbed the microphone from the stand and ran to one side of the stage and then to the other, the cape flaring out behind me...”
– Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat.
And who were Armand and Daniel but two pale nondescript young men in the press, black sweaters, jeans, hair partially hidden under sailor’s caps of blue wool, eyes behind dark glasses.