“I was just thinking about how my grandparents, who raised me, would be considered "white trash," whatever that means - mostly for being racists, I'd say. And how, as a child, I wanted to be like them, and identified with them culturally.” ThinkingMeanChildrenWould BeWantedWhiteRaisedRacistGrandparentTrashWhite Trash Author:Shane McCrae
“I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key.” LyingKeysPhrases Author:Shane McCrae
“I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.” WritingStillsWantedFoundBrainEasierComposerWriting PoetryWriting Music Author:Shane McCrae
“A white noise app wouldn't work for me - I would be too distracted by the non-white noise noises I could still hear, even more distracted than i would otherwise be. So I have to just accept the regular noises.” StillsWould BeWhiteAcceptingNoiseDistractedAppsWhite Noise Author:Shane McCrae
“How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.” PeopleThinkingKnowsImportantBookCareReadingHoursCouplePeriodsTake Care Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“If you're the King of Jordan, if you're a part of the royal family in Saudi Arabia and he's made this deal with Iran which gives them $150 billion to wage a war and try to extend their empire across the Middle East, why would you want to do it now? When I stand across from King Hussein of Jordan and I say to him, "You have a friend again sir, who will stand with you to fight this fight," he'll change his mind.” IfsWantGivingTryingMindMadeWarFightingDealsMiddleKingsEastBillionsEmpiresIranMiddle EastRoyalHusseinJordanArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisRoyal FamilyFriends Again Author:Chris Christie
“We have to destroy their caliphate because that gives them legitimacy to go ahead with the global Jihad. We have to take their energy because they are - ISIS is the richest terrorist organization there is.” GivingEnergyOrganizationTerroristIsisLegitimacyJihad Author:Benjamin Carson
“We have to take ISIS oil, shut down all of the mechanisms whereby they can disperse money because they go after disaffected individuals from all over the place, and they're able to pay them.” AbleIndividualPayOilMechanismIsis Author:Benjamin Carson
“As far as the command centers are concerned in Raqqa and to a lesser degree Mosul, cut those off. Do the same kind of thing that we did with Sinjar , working with our embedded special forces with the Kurds, shut off the supply route, soften them up, then we go in with specials ops followed by our air force to take them over. Those are things that work.” KindForceCuttingAirSpecialDegreesConcernedCommandRoutesEmbeddedAir ForceKurdsSpecial Forces Author:Benjamin Carson
“This whole concept of boots on the ground, we've got a phobia about boots on the ground. If our military experts say, we need boots on the ground, we should put boots on the ground and recognize that there will be boots on the ground and they'll be over here, and they'll be their boots if we don't get out of there now.” IfsNeedsShouldWholeMilitaryConceptsExpertsBootsPhobia Author:Benjamin Carson