The Life of a Cup of Coffee, as Told by Sabine Parrish
“Consumers in the Global South have a right to the best coffees from their nations, their sister nations, from wherever they want.”
“Consumers in the Global South have a right to the best coffees from their nations, their sister nations, from wherever they want.”
As an artist, Vu was looking for a way to represent personal history without feeling like she was “performing otherness.”
Most paanwalas sell loose cigarettes. I don’t smoke often, but when I do, I buy one or two. I never buy them from Muchhad.
“Dealing with someone else’s culture, someone else’s media, and trying to Americanize it is something I can’t understand.”
“I found myself dwelling on these parts of Korean culture as a way to reconnect with my identity and also the memory of my mom.”
“How can we lessen everyone’s burden and give ourselves more time to work on what matters to us?”
“Leave it alone and it knows how to grow,” says Uncle Nimal. “If you care too much, it will die.”
He begged his mother to let him buy the guitar. When she refused, reminding him that it was half of the month’s rent, he wept.
“People really want to fit Native people into a box, in this safe stereotype space. I defy every single stereotype anyone has ever held about Native people. I enjoy breaking those stereotypes, completely smashing them.”
The beauty industry right now is run by dinosaurs. What’s in these things we put on our bodies?
“The books are my brothers,” Fruznik says, in one of his turns of phrase that sound seamlessly romantic. “They are not lifeless things. They are living.”
Whenever something goes wrong at the New Amsterdam Theatre, it’s because of Olive Thomas. But the people working there don’t mind; they say, “Technically, she was here first.”
“Something as beautiful and unique as lavender wine shouldn’t just be at a country club.”
I might’ve said too much for a first visit, but Anshu’s warmth had a way of dissolving my worry. To my emotional overspilling, Anshu said she will take care of me from now on.
“Exodus is a large mass moving of people. My slogan is ‘Hair that moves you!’ which I think is cute.”
“My purpose in life is to encourage people to seek the things they love to do,” says Louis, “not what they think they have to do.”
“The day you sit idle, you are inviting illness and despondency upon yourself. I don’t want to be dependent on anybody. I have too much self-respect.”
Arturo is a modern-day alchemist, creating beauty out of bending light, and capturing photons on glass, silver plates, and egg whites.
Through Doug, I realized, musicians and writers have in common an invaluable quality: We get better as we mature.
“Yes, the border divides . . . but the culture of this place is of one, not two.”