this and that

“People feel very strongly about this. And that's not a political divide. It's a sort of individual divide. I know this first hand because obviously I looked at every single assisted suicide case for five years that was investigated.”

“I’m used to imagining what a keyboard part would be, and this and that. Now, they’re all right there.”

A politics that trades incessantly on disdaining “white male” this and that and on hyping “toxic masculinity” is as self-defeating as a purportedly “anti-racist” politics that ends up hyping racial identity itself.

"My comfort has come from my family and from Alex’s family, and as a very tight unit, we’re finding our way to get through this – and that’s what we shall do."

“But also, I think — absent from the body presence in the spirit — I keep hearing Mommy's voice: 'Baby, you're all right. And baby, you got this.' And that's the source of my strength. She's been here with me — just because she transitioned physically, I still feel Mommy's here spiritually. She has guided me through all sorts of things, and, you know, she didn't bring me here to be the mayor, to abandon me.”