Textmässigt är Puddle Dive kanske den bästa skivan som någonsin gjorts. Den präglas av Alegria (det vackra spanska ordet för livsglädje och glöd) och har kommit att bli något av ett manifest för mig, både i det politiska och i det personliga (Det personliga är förstås politiskt och allt det där). Tänkte lägga ut en rad olika vackra citat här och rekommendera er alla att köpa den:
“cause i know the biggest crime is to just throw up your hands say this has nothing to do with me i just want to live as comfortably as i can you got to look outside your eyes you got to think outside your brain you got to walk outside your life to where the neighborhood changes... I think it's absurd that you think i am the derelict daughter i fight fire with words, words are hotter than flames, words are wetter than water …you got your whole life to do something and that's not very long so why don't you give me a call when you decide you're willing to fight for what you think is real for what you think is right”
"i saw on the poster that my name was printed just a little bit smaller i can tell you need to stand just a little bit taller no one ever talks about it but no one can disguise the cloud of competition that is hanging behind their eyes …everyone is playing life
like it is some stupid sport.. i don't really care whose name is printed in bigger type i live in a world full of hope, not a world full of hype. I ain't no saint i help myself to what i need, but i help other people too you know i sleep soundly"
”I always feel I have to take a stand and there’s always someone on hand to hate me for standing there, I always feel I have to open my mouth and everytime I do I offend someone somewhere...I mean we have to be able to criticize what we love, say what we have to say”
“it's better than ten dollars an hour slammin' a hammer on my thumb and it's better than five dollars an hour selling people shit i wouldn't buy myself” (varför ska en tillbringa 8 timmar om dagen med något en inte trivs med? För att tjäna pengar? Nej, det är inte värt en tredjedel av ens liv/hälften av ens vakna tid.)
“sitting in the boardroom, the i'm so bored room listening to the suits talk about their world, they can make straight lines out of almost anything except for the line of my upper lip when it curls. Dressed in my best greasy skin and squinty eyes i'm the only part of summer that made it inside in the air-conditioned building decorated with a corporate flair i wonder can these boys smell me bleeding thru my underwear. There's men wearing the blood of the woman they love. There's white wearing the blood of the brown…Sitting in the boardroom, the i'm so bored room, listening to the suits talk about their world i didn't really have much to say the whole time i was there so i just left a big brown blood stain on their white chair”
“what's the big deal, get over it, relax, just 'cause i do up in your face what other people do behind you back. Why we all gotta look, why we all gotta act the same? I say if you're born a lion don't bother trying to act tame…What if this is my world and i invited them in. They should try living by my rules for a day, nobody would die and there'd be lots of stuff to say”
“i don't need anyone to hold me i can hold my own i got highways for stretch marks, see where i've grown? I sing sometimes
like my life is at stake 'cause you're only as loud as the noises you make. I'm learning to laugh as loud as i can listen 'cause silence is violence in women and poor people, if more people were screaming then i could relax, but a good brain ain't diddly if you don't have the facts. We live in a breakable takable world an ever available possible world”
“for every lie i unlearn i learn something new. I sing sometimes for the war that i fight 'cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right”
“if you're gonna do it, overdo it that's how you know you're alive”
“how come i can pick my ears but not my nose? Who made that rule anyway? How come you say that's
the way it is, that's just the way it goes? Why don't you decide for yourself what you can do and what you can say?”
Och här slår hon ut mot det outtalade heteronormativa kvinnoidealet om att de mest attraktiva kvinnorna är de som är tysta och vackra dvs mystiska:
“i think shy is boring, i think depressed is too, i think pretty is nice but i'd rather see something new”
“'cause i'm not going to pretend that i don't pick my nose that's just the way it is my friends that's just the way it goes this is who i am what i do and what i say if you like it let it be if you don't please do the same. I fight with love i laugh with rage. You gotta live light enough to see the humor and long enough to see some change”
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