Shake Your Beauty

Carolina May's exquisite little mouth, Prince (circa 1978-1993), The Golden Girls, every incarnation of the color orange, countdowns, Gossip Girl/Friday Night Lights/Lost/Mad Men/Real Housewives of NYC, watered-down limonade, popcorn shrimp, the freestyling waiter in Dave Chappelle's Block Party, and salacious biographies of early Hollywood actresses.

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...who here thinks I look like Stranje? And, um, I don't know an Ed.

Speidi, moving vigorously, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, any performance involving Joss Stone/John Mayer and an aging black soul legend, humidity (my hair), Frangela, all condiments, sunglasses indoors, and the following sentence: "Hey, Tia, how's the writing going?"

THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD, Zora Neale Hurston; THE GIRL'S GUIDE TO HUNTING AND FISHING, Melissa Banks; BRIGHT BOULEVARDS, BROKEN DREAMS, Donald Bogle; HOLLYWOOD BABYLON, Kenneth Angers; ENOUGH ROPE, Dorothy Parker; ZELDA, Nancy Mitford; SCRUPLES, Judith Krantz; ALWAYS WEAR JOY, Susan Fales-Hill; DREAMGIRLS: MY LIFE AS A SUPREME, Mary Wilson; EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS, Peter Biskind; SONG OF SOLOMON, Toni Morrison; HOW TO MAKE LOVE LIKE A PORN STAR, Jenna Jameson; WHAT SHE SAW, Lucinda Rosenfeld; BOBBED HAIR & BATHTUB GIN, Marion Meade; NO TIME TO DIE, Liz Tilberis; WUTHERING HEIGHTS, Emily Bronte; THE GROUND BENEATH HER FEET, Salman Rushdie; IT, Stephen King

"You are beautiful, but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty." --Congo proverb

"You live but once; you might as well be amusing." --Coco Chanel, iconic French designer

"Let's go somewhere private where we can discuss fashion." --Jay-Z, "Give it to Me"

"Don't fuck with me fellas! This aint my first time at the rodeo." --Faye Dunaway, MOMMIE DEAREST

"When I first moved to New York and was totally broke, I used to buy Vogue instead of dinner. I felt it fed me more."--Carrie Bradshaw, SEX & THE CITY

"I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood whose feelings are all hurt about it. When discriminated against, I'm merely astonished--how can anyone deny themselves the pleasure of my company?" --Zora Neale Hurston, legendary Harlem Renaissance writer

"Some men love me 'cause I'm pretty, but they're always afraid of mental wickedness--others love me 'cause I'm clever, and they're always afraid of my prettiness. One or two have loved me 'cause I'm lovable, and then, of course, I was acting." --Zelda Fitzgerald, writer, flapper & wife of F. Scott

"Don't be humble. You're not that great." --Golda Meir, former prime minister of Israel

"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?" --Jean Kerr, THE SNAKE HAS ALL THE LINES

"I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair." --Bette Davis, CABIN IN THE COTTON

"Travel, trouble, music, art/ A kiss, a frock, a rhyme/ I never said they feed my heart/ But still they pass the time." --Faut de Mieux, by Dorothy Parker, 1920's writer, poet & Algonquin Round Table wit

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