“I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after”
Wallace Stevens
“He comes by for a dove dinner or a blackbird dinner.”
Alvin May
“Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.”
Anne Stevenson
“The Witch of Blackbird Pond”
Elizabeth George
“A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.”
Maya Angelou
“Bearing false witness is not just one of the Ten Commandments. The Bible has numerously repeated warnings against slander, false testimony and just plain old lying. Interestingly, it has been a socially acceptable form of oppressing minorities and the poor for centuries: slander, sensationalism, hearsay, innuendo, half-truths, insinuations, rumors, myth, and outright lies. We should learn these words, and call it what it really is . . .”
Mike E. Knezevich, Jr.
“My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water”
Mark Twain
