Empowering Proverbs

Listed by Category, and then A-Z, with attribution to the character (if applicable), the title of the work (with the year of origin [if known]), and, lastly, the author and title of the larger work (an album, let's say). On Beauty Wars have been fought over women less beautiful than you. Joey P. Jones (to Q.) [2025] On Being Remembered Don't be belligerent or in-your-face. Give others some quiet, some space. Don't have to leave your lipstick mark. Don't have to be remembered. It'll be alright if people are... So caught up in their own worlds... That they totally forget you when you're gone. Gently... Gently... Leave your mark on the world. "Lipstick Mark" (2018), JRex, Welcome to Weird On Birthday Gifts What do you get for the man who already has everything? Answer: m...

"I am not retained by the police to supply their deficiencies." Sherlock Holmes, from The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Click here to check out my First Amendment playlist In the world we live in today, there's a whole lot of censorship going on. And we're so polarized that I can't even get my A.I. to tell me who the President of the United States is. Don't believe me? Listen to the audio file at the bottom of this page. This censorship has made many of us into some disgusting, chicken-shit motherfuckers. There's a hesitancy to express one's self that wasn't there a decade ago. We Americans already had invisible chains on us. Now we've slipped on an invisible noose as part of our attire. And, almost 24/7, we're either bent over with no Vaseline, or we're lying on the floor with our oppressor's heavy foot pressed against our necks. Just witness the skyrocketing prices of everything, in conjunction with the few pennies raise we get each year. My 50¢ raise certainly wasn't an appropriate cost of living increase. Fuck that! You're going to have to shoot me...

On Polarization and Oppression On Equality... What gives others the right to deprive us of a life that's as good as theirs? We work every bit as hard as they do.  Plus, we are merely living in a world of ones and zeros. There is no actual inequality. There's only the inequality that we choose to believe exists. We don't have to let others tell us how to live. We can live in exactly the way we choose. -JPJ, 3/18/2025 On Healthcare .. . When you put your care into the hands of others, you take yourself out of the equation. -JPJ, 3/17/2025 On Love .. . You don't go looking for love: it finds you. All you've got to do is put yourself on the scene and interact. And remember: always bold; never creepy. -JPJ, 3/13/2025