“I was strong and tough enough and charming. / How else is a fat Jew lesbian poet gonna get by? / Listening to the radio, staying home, staying alone, like / they mean us to. / Who means you to be left out? / Who don't?” MeanEnoughHomeLeftStrongPoetListeningToughRadioJewFatsStayingBigotryOutsidersCharmingLeft Out Author:Elana Dykewomon
“Getting older doesn't help you in the fact that you might have covered some of this ground before. So you're listening to a song that you know is a hit, but it just can't be a hit for you, it's gonna be a hit for somebody else. That's tough.” KnowsFactsHelpingMightSongListeningToughCoveredGetting OldGetting Older Author:Garth Brooks
“Donald Trump in Philadelphia, and he's delivering a very substantive speech on military preparedness, the status of the current military. He detailed the deterioration of the U.S. military in the past eight years and explained how he's going to rebuild it and why we need to, and it's a very tough audience. It's an expressly military audience, and they are of course listening for any sign that he's not really genuine here. I think, knocking this out of the park as far as that audience is concerned.” ThinkingNeedsYearsPastCoursesAudienceMilitaryListeningTrumpSpeechToughConcernedCurrentsEightGenuineParksKnockingPhiladelphiaDeliveringPreparednessDeterioration Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It was tough sitting in jail listening to Jay Leno and Rush Limbaugh and everybody making jokes about me getting shot. And watching the media report all kinds of lies about me, like that I got raped in jail. That never happened. But at least while I was locked down, all the inmates gave me props encouragement, and so did lots of mothers and kids, who wrote me letters of support.” KindKidsLyingMotherSupportListeningJokesToughEncouragementAll Kinds Author:Tupac Shakur
“I'm in love with Earth. I truly am. And so listening is not work, to work toward a better future. It's joy. To not be able to work toward a better future would be work. That would be tough.” EarthJoyListeningTough Author:Gordon Hempton