“Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead.” WhiteHellTelevisionEatingCleanFolksCellsFedsJailVietnamTailsBailWatching Television Author:Muhammad Ali
“As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case. After I gave up television, I found I could carry longer and longer stories or ideas in my head and put them together until I was carrying an entire short story. That's pretty much when I started writing.” IfsWritingChildrenIdeasStoriesTogetherTurnsFoundCasesTelevisionLuckyJokesCleanRadioNarrativeIf I CouldShort StoryWipeTurn-onGave UpSlate Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply; things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem. We're a world, as I said in The Affluent Society, of filthy streets and clean houses, poor schools and expensive television.” WorldSaidProblemSchoolHousePoorStreetsTelevisionDependsCleanExpensivePrivate SectorFilthyAffluentPublic SectorClean House Author:John Kenneth Galbraith