Quotes tagged ‘Pop Culture’

“rihanna has the life that i need, her titties are always out in the air like imagine how alive and free her titties must feel, she got the most bomb ass style ever like even when she’s in her pj’s she’s still killing it and idk man she just makes me question my whole existence.”

— darkskinho, darkskinho.tumblr.com

“I'm just saying when tragedy strikes, we have to look on the bright side. You know? Like how even used Mercedes still have leather seats.”

— Cordelia Chase, amazon.com

“Anyone smart enough to accomplish what they have should know better than to risk everything by talking to the vultures in the media.”

— Ernest Cline, amazon.com

“You’re not friends. You’ll never be friends. Love isn’t brains, children, it’s blood. Blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love’s bitch, but at least I’m man enough to admit it.”

— Spike, amazon.com

“I just don’t quite understand it [the press], really. I don’t understand the animal. It’s a strange, roundabout way of selling something; it leaves a foul taste... The thing that fascinates me is: who cares what an actor thinks?”

— Johnny Depp, vanityfair.com

“The closest you can get to freedom is anonymity. Fame is the worst prison of them all. Because then people have ideas about you and ideas about your life. And if you’re not what they expect then they will fuck you up.”

— Anonymous, facebook.com

“From the Fast and the Furious to the disappearance of Flight 470 starring unidentified passengers, 33 gone in northwest Kenya post-civil war violence in Libya, Syria the Iraq insurgency, the insurgency in Ukraine, Pakistan, Nigeria a multitude in Mexico made anonymous in the movies, all of us... ...…”

— Chris Campanioni, amazon.com

“Kim Kardashian made $12 million dollars this year Yesterday, uncountable men in their miserable jobs, told their miserable friends that Kim was a ‘dumb whore’ Kim Kardashian will never learn their names.”

— Clementine Von Radics, youtube.com

“Is that not ridiculous that people thought that Justin Bieber and I were on a… romantic vacation [together], in the Bahamas, and I just happened to wear a gown as my swimsuit and red lips and he's dressed in a suit in the ocean? Seriously — who would walk to the beach like that?”

— Kim Kardashian, standard.co.uk

“Because when you look beyond the millions of dollars, fans and followers, Minaj is simply another black woman being accused of divisiveness by a white feminist for pointing out racial inequality.”

— Yomi Adegoke, independent.co.uk

“By centering Minaj’s observation around herself, and thus shifting the narrative into a Nicki vs. Taylor story, she silenced Minaj, dismissed her experiences, and derailed an important conversation about race and gender. Swift tried to deflect Minaj’s criticisms of the music industry (again, not abo…”

— Zeba Blay, huffingtonpost.com

“There is a difference between an artist who actually employs women to further her feminist message and one who seems to expect them to surround her as though bounce boards there simply to magnify her own limelight.”

— Amy Odell, cosmopolitan.com

“Taylor, Selena, her fucking squad, and her ‘swifties’ demand we talk about real issues, but yet do nothing when Leslie Jones a black woman and fellow feminist is harassed, compared to a gorilla, and given death threats to the point she leaves Twitter. They have never once mentioned the racism in Hol…”

— arthurkirklandseyebrows, arthurkirklandseyebrows.tumblr.com

“The best example of Swift’s white feminism is when Nicki Minaj posted about the racism and antiblack misogyny that fuels award nominations after the announcement for the MTV VMA’s in 2015... Swift loves to instigate everything about herself, and then didn’t respond to Minaj until numerous articles w…”

— Ashleigh Shackelford, wearyourvoicemag.com

“But we can also drag Swift for being a respectable white woman that often performs purity (more whiteness) and constantly plays the victim card, using her white femme womanhood to navigate conflict in ways that avoid accountability or culpability. Especially when this conflict is her pinning the bla…”

— Ashleigh Shackelford, wearyourvoicemag.com

“Because Swift operates on white feminism and white fragility as survival. Her albums, her platform, and her life is based upon being a victim, being the one to be saved and being a white princess. Collaborating with one of the most controversial rappers over lyrics that seemingly destroy the narrati…”

— Ashleigh Shackelford, wearyourvoicemag.com

“Try as people might to divorce celebrity from the real world, it directly influences the world that we all live in. Portrayals of black men in the media lead to racist narratives that paint Kanye as a villain and Taylor as the white woman in distress. Putting on a show at the Grammys to become a vic…”

— Ira Madison III, medium.com

“Despite insistence from Taylor that she would ‘very much like to be excluded from this narrative, one that [she] has never asked to be a part of, since 2009,’ she followed the VMAs incident up by releasing the song ‘Innocent’ that directly referenced the drama with Kanye. In a quite condescending so…”

— Ira Madison III, medium.com

“Yes, poor Taylor Swift is the victim once again. A victim of a ‘character assassination’. A character assassination much like when she posted Joe Jonas‘ breakup voicemail on YouTube. A character assassination much like when she described the woman Joe Jonas dated after her, Camille Belle, as ‘an act…”

— Todd, idly.craveonline.com

“You didn’t ask to be part of the narrative? Sorry. Did John Mayer, Taylor Lautner, Jake Gyllenhaal, Joe Jonas, or Harry Styles ask to be part of your narrative that you used to portray yourself as a victim?”

— Todd, idly.craveonline.com