Bougie Quotes

We've searched our database for all the quotes and captions related to Bougie. Here they are! All 56 of them:

What if you had like a trillion dollars and could live out here in a gigantic mansion. Would you be bougie?' 'Nah, 'cause I wouldn't live out here. I'd live on a private island somewhere so I ain't gotta be bothered by nobody.
Angie Thomas (Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0))
...as long as you have a bougie heart, you can aim for the finer things in life.
Ibi Zoboi (American Street)
The story we are told of women is not this one. The story of women is the story of love, of foundering into another. A slight deviation: longing to founder and being unable to. Being left alone in the foundering, and taking things into one’s own hands: rat poison, the wheels of a Russian train. Even the smoother and gentler story is still just a modified version of the above. In the demotic, in the key of bougie, it’s the promise of love in old age for all the good girls of the world.
Lauren Groff (Fates and Furies)
One if by Land Cruiser. Two if by C-class Mercedes. The bougies are coming! The bougies are coming!
Paul Beatty (The Sellout)
La vie est toujours au bord de la mort ; les ruelles donnent sur la même place que les boulevards, et une petite bougie s’éteint tout comme un flambeau. Je choisis ma propre façon de brûler.
Sophie Scholl
I shouldn't have come to this party. I'm not even sure I belong at this party. That's not on some bougie shit, either. There are just some places where it's not enough to be me. Either version of me. Big D's spring break party is one of those places.
Angie Thomas (The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1))
Quand la sagesse parle, se taire. Ne perdez pas votre bougie lorsque le soleil est là.
Mehmet Murat ildan
She's called Jay that 'ol' hood rat from the projects' plenty of times. Then again, Jay has called her 'that ol' bougie heffa' just as much
Angie Thomas (On the Come Up)
Okay, but don’t underestimate bougie rage. That’s on another level.
Ibi Zoboi (Pride)
« On peut allumer des dizaines de bougies à partir d'une seule, sans en abréger la vie. On ne diminue pas le bonheur, en le partageant. »
Bouddha
L'absence diminue les médiocres passions, et augmente les grandes, comme le vent éteint les bougies, et allume le feu.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Mais quelqu'un est venu qui m'a enlevé à tous ces plaisirs d'enfant paisible. Quelqu'un a soufflé la bougie qui éclairait pour moi le doux visage maternel penché sur le repas du soir. Quelqu'un a éteint la lampe autour de laquelle nous étions une famille heureuse, à la nuit, lorsque mon père avait accroché les volets de bois aux portes vitrées. Et celui-là, ce fut Augustin Meaulnes, que les autres élèves appelèrent bientôt le grand Meaulnes.
Alain-Fournier (Le Grand Meaulnes)
There’s a heavenly bakery in one corner, and a whole local snacks section, and between the six of us, it’s like shopping with very bougie, somewhat drunk toddlers, one person wandering off every time the rest of us are ready to go.
Emily Henry (Happy Place)
L'absence diminue les médiocres passions, et augmente les grands, comme le vent éteint les bougies et allume le feu. "Absence diminishes the lesser passions and increases the great ones, just as the wind extinguishes candles but fans a great fire.
François de La Rochefoucauld (Reflexions Ou Sentences Et Maximes Morales... (French Edition))
Listen, coffee maker, I know you think you’re the shit because you’re bougie as hell, but let’s keep it real. You have one job— to make coffee— and, bitch, right now you’re sucking at it. You should be ashamed. What would all the other coffee makers have to say about your attitude?
Ivy Asher (The Bone Witch (The Osseous Chronicles, #1))
I still can’t believe it.” Daniel ran a hand through his locs. “Yeah. Right.” She caught the thin wedge of anger in his voice. “Well. I can’t.” “He couldn’t, either. Whereas I—we—all his friends—can believe it, no problem. Who does that? Go help some White girl. In a park. In Northwest DC. At night.” He shook his head and dropped another book into the box. “What else could he have done?” Daniel straightened. “Girl, he should have sped up, kept on running right to a well-lit road, and called some White folk to help her. He just didn’t know how he needed to be if he was going to live in this country.” He sighed. “We tried. Gave him ‘the talk,’ like our parents did when we were little kids.” He shook his head. “He thought he knew about cops. But the cops he knew in England, ninety percent of them weren’t carrying guns. No, make that a hundred percent, the bougie ’hoods where he came up. Art historian, Lord Fauntleroy accent, Yale and Georgetown—none of it was ever going to keep him safe. Like I said, we tried to warn him. But seems like it never sank in.
Geraldine Brooks (Horse)
La muraille de l’escalier où je vis monter le reflet de sa bougie n’existe plus depuis longtemps. En moi aussi bien des choses ont été détruites que je croyais devoir durer toujours, et de nouvelles se sont édifiées, donnant naissance à des peines et à des joies nouvelles que je n’aurais pu prévoir alors, de même que les anciennes me sont devenues difficiles à comprendre.
Marcel Proust (A la recherche du temps perdu)
Sabran se recula pour l'examiner. Ead eut un aperçu de ses expressions à la lueur des bougies — le front lisse, les yeux sombres et déterminés — avant qu'elles s'unissent à nouveau, et leur baiser fut cette fois chaud, novice, fondateur, la naissance d'une étoile sur leurs lèvres. Elles étaient des rayons de miel secrets, fragiles et complexes. Ead frissonna quand la nuit accueillie sa peau.
Samantha Shannon (The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1))
I’ve never in my life had someone put their hands on me and my mind is racing about how to escape. He grabs me tighter and pushes me against the wall, knocking one of the gold plaques off-center. He pins both of my arms against the wall. I’m writhing in his grip but he’s so much stronger than me. “You let him hit it and not me, huh?” His eyes are wide and glassy. “I get you into a good situation and you still want to act like a bougie-ass bitch!
Ashley M. Coleman (Good Morning, Love)
There was nothing to be done and now what? Mathilde was forty-six. She was too young to be finished forever with love. Still in her prime. Fine-looking. Desirable. And uncoupled now, for good. The story we are told of women is not this one. The story of women is the story of love, of foundering into another. A slight deviation: longing to founder and being unable to. Beng left alone in the foundering, and taking things into one's own hands: rat poison, the wheels of a Russian train. Even the smoother and gentler story is still just a modified version of the above. In the demotic, in the key of bougie, it's the promise of love in old age for all the good girl of the world.
Lauren Groff (Fates and Furies)
Hold on,” I said. “Frank, name three things you like. And no, Darling doesn’t count.” “Easy,” Frank said. “Murder—” “Too dark. It’s abundantly clear that you like inflicting suffering on things, but we’re going for lighthearted interests at the moment, so try again.” “Uh, mayhem.” “Still too dark.” He paused for a very, very long moment. “Mmm… macarons.” “Are you just naming things that start with m?” “No.” “I think you are.” “Am not.” “Are too.” “Is this really the time for this argument?” Lars said. “I mean, macarons?” I said. “Seriously? That’s a weird flex.” “What is a flex?” Lars said. “How is that weird?” Frank said. “That’s a bougie cookie, man. I’m rich as hell and I still feel guilty buying macarons. Those things are expensive.” “I don’t think it’s about the money. I think deep down in your heart of hearts, you know that you don’t deserve macarons.” “Wow,” I said. “They’re not even that good.” “Macarons are the Cadillac of cookies and if you ever imply otherwise again I will cut that uncultured palate right out of your mouth and force you to eat it.” “Wow,” Lars said. “That’s a really strong opinion.” “Those are the only opinions I have,” Frank said. “Yeah, apparently the guy who’s all about mystery meat also likes macarons,” I said. “Go figure.” “Oh yeah,” Frank said. “I do love me some mysterious meats. I just really like the suspense of wondering what dead animal I’m about to bite into, you know?” “I really think we should go,” Lars said. “Yeah, you’re right. Frank, lemme know when you come up with a third thing.
Kyle Kirrin (Black Sand Baron (The Ripple System #2))
When Sam and I were living in Australia, one winter weekend we rented a cottage in the countryside. We toured local wineries by day and at sunset we wrapped ourselves up in blankets on the porch overlooking the valley below, tucking into our bounty of wine and local cheese. I can’t remember who initiated it (OK, fine, probably me), but we decided that during this magic hour while day turned to night we could ask each other anything. This moment in our relationship changed everything. I got to ask all my questions and so did Sam. We also had to answer them. I think for both of us it’s the night we tipped over from infatuation to falling in love. Even now, the phrase ‘wine and cheese hour’ is shorthand for this safe space, when we need to sit down and reconnect. This is so bougie and painful to admit, especially because I don’t even like wine and this is now far more likely to be ‘coffee and Jaffa cake hour’. (Vodka and Pringles works, too.)
Jessica Pan (Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously)
Je me suis rendu compte que je n’avais pas vu l’eau depuis quatre jours et que je portais toujours les mêmes vêtements, avec les reliefs de fourmis. Elle, en revanche, portait une autre robe, blanche, à ras du cou, qui la couvrait entièrement. La robe ne comportait ni motifs ni inscriptions ; ce qui ne laissait pas de m’étonner, car maman n’avait jamais porté que d’affreux corsages, immanquablement couverts d’inscriptions. Je la regardais aller et venir dans la cuisine, comme un métronome sorti de son axe. Elle était blanche et cylindrique, et j’imaginais sa robe se transformer en un tube coiffé d’un petit couvercle dans lequel je la tiendrais captive et dont je ne la libérerais que de loin en loin. Le matin ou le soir, ou à la fin de la semaine, ou pour Noël. Ou, ce qui serait le mieux, seulement à la fin, pour qu’elle meure. Maman-tube de dentifrice. Maman-œsophage. Maman-ascaride. Maman-câble. Maman-craie. Maman-os. Maman-fil. Maman-comète. Maman-bougie.
Tatiana Țîbuleac (El verano en que mi madre tuvo los ojos verdes)
The story we are told of women is not this one. The story of women is the story of love, of foundering into another. A slight deviation: longing to founder and being unable to. Being left alone in the foundering, and taking things into one's own hands: rat poison, the wheels of a Russian train. Even the smoother and gentler story is still just a modified version of the above. In the demotic, in the key of bougie, it's the promise of love in old age for all the good girls of the world. Hilarious ancient bodies at bath time, husband's palsied hands soaping wife's withered dugs, erection popping out of the bubbles like a pink periscope. I see you! There would be long, hobbledy walks under the plane trees, stories told by a single sideways glance, one word sufficing. Anthill, he'd say; Martini! she'd say; and the thick swim of the old joke would return to them. The laughter, the beautiful reverberations. Then the bleary toddling on to an early-bird dinner, snoozing through a movie hand in hand. Their bodies like knobby sticks wrapped in vellum. One laying the other on the deathbed, feeding the overdose, dying the day after, all heart gone out of the world with the beloved breath. Oh, companionship. Oh, romance. Oh, completion. Forgive her if she believed this would be the way it would go. She had been led to this conclusion by forces greater than she. Conquers all! All you need is! Is a many-splendored thing! Surrender to! Like corn rammed down goose necks, this shit they'd swallowed since they were barely old enough to dress themselves in tulle. The way the old story goes, woman needs an other to complete her circuits, to flick her to fullest blazing.
Lauren Groff (Fates and Furies)
Les deux femmes, vêtues de noir, remirent le corps dans le lit de ma sœur, elles jetèrent dessus des fleurs et de l’eau bénite, puis, lorsque le soleil eut fini de jeter dans l’appartement sa lueur rougeâtre et terne comme le regard d’un cadavre, quand le jour eut disparu de dessus les vitres, elles allumèrent deux petites bougies qui étaient sur la table de nuit, s’agenouillèrent et me dirent de prier comme elles. Je priai, oh ! bien fort, le plus qu’il m’était possible ! mais rien… Lélia ne remuait pas ! Je fus longtemps ainsi agenouillé, la tête sur les draps du lit froids et humides, je pleurais, mais bas et sans angoisses ; il me semblait qu’en pensant, en pleurant, en me déchirant l’âme avec des prières et des vœux, j’obtiendrais un souffle, un regard, un geste de ce corps aux formes indécises et dont on ne distinguait rien si ce n’est, à une place, une forme ronde qui devait être La tête, et plus bas une autre qui semblait être les pieds. Je croyais, moi, pauvre naïf enfant, je croyais que la prière pouvait rendre la vie à un cadavre, tant j’avais de foi et de candeur ! Oh ! on ne sait ce qu’a d’amer et de sombre une nuit ainsi passée à prier sur un cadavre, à pleurer, à vouloir faire renaître le néant ! On ne sait tout ce qu’il y a de hideux et d’horrible dans une nuit de larmes et de sanglots, à la lueur de deux cierges mortuaires, entouré de deux femmes aux chants monotones, aux larmes vénales, aux grotesques psalmodies ! On ne sait enfin tout ce que cette scène de désespoir et de deuil vous remplit le cœur : enfant, de tristesse et d’amertume ; jeune homme, de scepticisme ; vieillard, de désespoir ! Le jour arriva. Mais quand le jour commença à paraître, lorsque les deux cierges mortuaires commençaient à mourir aussi, alors ces deux femmes partirent et me laissèrent seul. Je courus après elles, et me traînant à leurs pieds, m’attachant à leurs vêtements : — Ma sœur ! leur dis-je, eh bien, ma sœur ! oui, Lélia ! où est-elle ? Elles me regardèrent étonnées. — Ma sœur ! vous m’avez dit de prier, j’ai prié pour qu’elle revienne, vous m’avez trompé ! — Mais c’était pour son âme ! Son âme ? Qu’est-ce que cela signifiait ? On m’avait souvent parlé de Dieu, jamais de l’âme. Dieu, je comprenais cela au moins, car si l’on m’eût demandé ce qu’il était, eh bien, j’aurais pris La linotte de Lélia, et, lui brisant la tête entre mes mains, j’aurais dit : « Et moi aussi, je suis Dieu ! » Mais l’âme ? l’âme ? qu’est-ce cela ? J’eus la hardiesse de le leur demander, mais elles s’en allèrent sans me répondre. Son âme ! eh bien, elles m’ont trompé, ces femmes. Pour moi, ce que je voulais, c’était Lélia, Lélia qui jouait avec moi sur le gazon, dans les bois, qui se couchait sur la mousse, qui cueillait des fleurs et puis qui les jetait au vent ; c’était Lelia, ma belle petite sœur aux grands yeux bleus, Lélia qui m’embrassait le soir après sa poupée, après son mouton chéri, après sa linotte. Pauvre sœur ! c’était toi que je demandais à grands cris, en pleurant, et ces gens barbares et inhumains me répondaient : « Non, tu ne la reverras pas, tu as prié non pour elle, mais tu as prié pour son âme ! quelque chose d’inconnu, de vague comme un mot d’une langue étrangère ; tu as prié pour un souffle, pour un mot, pour le néant, pour son âme enfin ! » Son âme, son âme, je la méprise, son âme, je la regrette, je n’y pense plus. Qu’est-ce que ça me fait à moi, son âme ? savez-vous ce que c’est que son âme ? Mais c’est son corps que je veux ! c’est son regard, sa vie, c’est elle enfin ! et vous ne m’avez rien rendu de tout cela. Ces femmes m’ont trompé, eh bien, je les ai maudites. Cette malédiction est retombée sur moi, philosophe imbécile qui ne sais pas comprendre un mot sans L’épeler, croire à une âme sans la sentir, et craindre un Dieu dont, semblable au Prométhée d’Eschyle, je brave les coups et que je méprise trop pour blasphémer.
Gustave Flaubert (La dernière heure : Conte philosophique inachevé)
« Tout comme une bougie ne peut brûler sans feu, les hommes ne peuvent vivre sans une vie spirituelle. »
Raja Vishupadi (Citations de Sagesse - 99 citations de Bouddha (French Edition))
A few of the Germans managed to reach Palestine, where they disappeared. The French party fell into the hands not of angels but of two of the worst scoundrels in history, Hugh the Iron and William of Posquères, Marseilles shipowners, who offered the young crusaders free transport to the Holy Land, but carried them instead to Bougie in North Africa and sold them as slaves to Arab dealers.
Morris Bishop (The Middle Ages)
bougie
Mary Stone (Dark Greed (Charli Cross #2))
Assumed you thought you were too bougie for us now.
Kennedy Ryan (Reel (Hollywood Renaissance #1))
That Goody Gimlet For you bougie mofos, here’s a cocktail that’s a little more high class than the gin and juice I was swiggin’ from a plastic cup. It’s even got a fancy-ass name: the Gimlet.
Snoop Dogg (From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipes from Tha Boss Dogg's Kitchen)
Elle a oublié de décommander ce dîner prévu d'ici deux heures chez sa fille et son gendre, elle n'aime pas aller chez eux, se le formule clairement à l'instant, je n'aime pas y aller, fait froid là-bas - ne saurait dire pourtant si ce sont les murs de l'appartement talochés d'une belle peinture blanche à la caséine qui la font frissonner, ou bien l'absence de cendrier et de balcon, de viande, de désordre, de tension, ou encore les tabourets maliens et la méridienne design, les soupes végétariennes servies dans des coupelles mauresques, les bougies parfumées Foin coupé, Feu de bois, Menthe sauvage, la satiété stylée de ceux qui se couchent avec les poules sous des édredons de velours indien, la tendre atonie distillée partout dans leur royaume, ou peut-être est-ce ce couple qui l'effraye, ce couple qui avait avalé en moins de deux ans sa fille unique, l'avait désintégrée dans une conjugalité sûre, émolliente, un baume après des années de nomadisme solitaire: sa fille fougueuse et polyglotte désormais méconnaissable.
Maylis de Kerangal
A ce moment-là seul comprendrez-vous donc tous quand leur viendra l'idée bientôt cette idée leur viendra de vouloir vous en bouffer du nègre à la manière d'Hitler bouffant du juif sept jours fascistes sur sept A ce moment-là seul comprendrez-vous donc tous quand leur supériorité s'étalera d'un bout à l'autre de leurs boulevards et qu'alors vous les verrez vraiment tout se permettre ne plus se contenter de rire avec l'index inquiet de voir passer un nègre mais froidement matraquer mais froidement descendre mais froidement étendre mais froidement matraquer descendre étendre et couper leur sexe pour en faire des bougies pour leurs églises
Léon-Gontran Damas (PIGMENTS-NEVRALGIES)
Des bourses de doctorat académique-privé (conventions industrielles de formation par la recherche ou Cifre) s’ajoutent à la panoplie (on en comptait 1 350 en 2012). « Il y a clairement un encouragement aux relations entre les laboratoires publics et les entreprises. Et il faut encore progresser dans ces liens », estime Denis Randet, délégué général de l’Association nationale recherche technologie (ANRT). « Certes, on n’a pas inventé l’électricité en cherchant à perfectionner la bougie, mais tous les chercheurs ont en tête des problèmes à résoudre. Et on ne peut pas se priver des questions posées par les entreprises », complète-t-il.
Anonymous
I told her about me and Peter breaking up, and she wasn't the least bit surprised. “Honey, that man put the B in bougie,” she said, causing me to laugh.   “I
Mz. Toni (Lil Mama From The Projects 3)
I liked to refer to myself as bougavian. Slightly bougie, but I was not one to easily forget my bird roots.
Nicole Falls (Smitten (Accidentally in Love, #2))
Everything about Hidden Springs screamed, “Welcome to the wilderness, but don’t worry, we know you like things bougie!
Noelle W. Ihli (Gray After Dark)
Écriture Si ma plume se faisait vaine je l'internerais Je me ferais fort de briser sa vindicte Je revitaliserais mes mots, je mémoriserais Ma poésie dans des apprêts fantômes Si ma muse oublieuse de son inspiration Folâtrerait dans l'abandon, je la cinglerais De mon verbe acerbe, dérangerais ses amours J'hypothéquerais sa verve et son attention Si les mots venaient à manquer, défaillants Je rééditerais impassible les vieux, les anciens Combattants des campagnes lunaires, astronautes Infiltrant l'espace sidéral de la muse Calliope Si ma poésie se lisait à l'envers, à l'endroit Je réfléchirais mes vers dans un miroir octogone Je les lirai à l'insu d'une bougie qui s'étiole. (p. 45)
Raymonde Verney (DEMETER (French Edition))
If you think it’s not for you bc it’s too bougie/white/annoying/whatever, please come be my plus-one and see for yourself how inclusive and supportive and wonderful it really is.
Andrea Bartz (The Herd)
Unnecessary plaster columns and fake brick facades and four-car garages. Bougie as shit.
Shelby Van Pelt (Remarkably Bright Creatures)
It’s just the money turning him bougie, Keisha. Swear to God money and property and status will make people forget themselves.” Keisha looks at her with something close to pity. “You go ahead and believe what you want,” she says. “But me and Darlene? We leaving.
Nicola Yoon (One Of Our Kind)
Elle joint ses mains sous son menton, ferme les yeux et, instantanément, se retrouve dans la chambre à Combray. Par la fenêtre, elle observe les parents Proust raccompagner Swann puis les entend parler de langouste et de glace au café et à la pistache. Quand elle ne les voit plus, elle se rue dans le couloir où la mère de Marcel ne tarde pas à apparaître, sa bougie à la main.
Stéphane Carlier (Clara Reads Proust)
She’d hoped Jessica would forget they were there, but they weren’t being their best selves. Thong had already drooled all over the leather seats, and Couch had shed hair everywhere except for the blankets Norah had brought for him to sit on. Converse, who was resting his head on the center console, had been relatively quiet, but that was only because he’d discovered the bag of bougie dog treats in Jessica’s bag and devoured the lot, meaning he would soon have terrible gas.
Sally Hepworth (Darling Girls)
On peut allumer des dizaines de bougies à partir d'une seule sans en abréger la vie. On ne diminue pas le bonheur en le partageant.
Bouddha
I always pursue greater because good isn’t the capacity and basic isn’t my forte
Ma’Kiyah D Moore
That’s all my grandmother does. Complains about her bougie liberal kid who married someone else’s bougie liberal kid, who raised their kid as a bougie liberal too, all going about their lives blissfully ignorant of whether they’re behaving the way they’re meant to, if they’re living their lives the way other people want them to. Who act the way they want to, not the way they’re expected to by …’ He gestures vaguely. ‘By all that stuff.
Kasim Ali (Good Intentions)
Hollow (2020) Written in response to the toppling of the Edward Colston statue in Bristol on Sunday 7th June 2020. You came down easy in the end the righteous wrench of two ropes in a grand plie briefly, you flew corkscrewed, then met the ground with the clang of toy guns, loose change chains a rain of cheers. Standing ovation on the platform of your neck punk ballet. Act 1. there is more to come. And who carved you? They took such care with that stately pose and propped chin. Wise and virtuous the plaque assured us. Victors wish history odourless and static but history is a sneaky mistress moves like smoke, Colston, like saliva in a hungry mouth. This is your rightful home here, in the pit of chaos with the rest of us. Take your twisted glory and feed it to the tadpoles. Kids will write raps to that syncopated splash. I think of you lying in that harbour with the horrors you hosted. There is no poem more succinct than that. But still you are permanent. You who perfected the ratio. Blood to sugar to money to bricks. Each bougie building we flaunt haunted by bones. Children learn and titans sing under the stubborn rust of your name. But the air is gently throbbing with newness. Can you feel it? Colston, I can’t get the sound of you from my head. Countless times I passed that plinth its heavy threat of metal and marble. But as you landed a piece of you fell off broke away and inside nothing but air. This whole time You were hollow.
Vanessa Kisuule
Je serai cendre dans ton foyer, bougie dans ton chandelier. Je serai rose dans ton jardin, je m'ouvrirai au matin.
Remy Dor (Contes et légendes de Turquie)
Apparently since I met him, I’ve become bougie.
H.J. Welch (Pulling Focus (Model Love, #5))
It’s secure,” I whispered, slapping his hand away. “I haven’t forgotten how to do this, you know.” His bright white smile was hidden under his mask, but I knew it was there all the same. “Just double-checking, JoJo. That bougie Academy would rot a lesser girl’s brain.” “Will you two get moving? Christ,” Dom barked in our ears.
Elizabeth Dear (Storm the Gates (A Knight's Revenge #1))
From there, Laila created an entire narrative in her head about this woman: she had to be stuck-up, and her attire was a way to prove that she was better than everyone else. Most stuck-up people tended to be bitchy and rude. That’s probably why people always gossiped about the Melancons but no one ever knew them. They didn’t let people get too close because they were bougie,
Morgan Jerkins (Caul Baby)
Food is heritage. Food is economy. Food is culture. It makes no sense for a major city in the U.S. not to have someone documenting a city's foodways story, especially cities with major research universities. It ain't bougie or boring, it's protecting the truth.
Robin Caldwell
When a black person behaves in a way that doesn’t fit the dominant cultural ideal of how a black person should be, there is all kinds of trouble. The authenticity of his or her blackness is immediately called into question. We should be black but not too black, neither too ratchet nor too bougie. There are all manner of unspoken rules of how a black person should think and act and behave, and the rules are ever changing.
Roxane Gay (Bad Feminist: Essays)
Everyone loves her shit on Atlantic, and no doubt they’re classics, but when I heard her sing ‘Skylark,’ I told Esther Phillips, my running buddy back then, ‘That girl pissed all over that song.’ It came at a time when we were all looking to cross over by singing standards. I had ‘Sunday Kind of Love’ and ‘Trust in Me,’ and Sam Cooke was doing ‘Tennessee Waltz’ and ‘When I Fall in Love’ at the Copa. We were all trying to be so middle class. It was the beginning of the bougie black thing. I truly believe Aretha had a head start on us since she was the daughter of a rich preacher and grew up bougie. But, hell, the reasons don’t matter. She took ‘Skylark’ to a whole ’nother place. When she goes back and sings the chorus the second time and jumps an octave—I mean, she’s screaming—I had to scratch my head and ask myself, How the fuck did that bitch do that? I remember running into Sarah Vaughan, who always intimidated me. Sarah said, ‘Have you heard of this Aretha Franklin girl?’ I said, ‘You heard her do “Skylark,” didn’t you?’ Sarah said, ‘Yes, I did, and I’m never singing that song again.
David Ritz (Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin)
Le feu, une première victoire des hommes sur les puissances célestes Enfin les temps changent : un jour d’orage, la foudre tombe sur une forêt et enflamme les arbres. Une arme extraordinaire est tombée du ciel. Les hommes ont domestiqué le feu. C’est une première victoire sur leur impitoyable environnement. Désormais, ils pourront avoir chaud en hiver et, la nuit, éloigner les bêtes sauvages. Depuis, le 25 décembre, jour du solstice d’hiver, l’homme célèbre avec le don du feu la victoire de la lumière sur les ténèbres. C’est notre fameux Noël, une fête vieille d’au moins dix mille ans, née huit millénaires avant l’anniversaire chrétien de la naissance de Jésus-Christ. Les sapins de Noël n’étaient-ils pas jadis ornés de bougies pour commémorer l’arbre de feu des origines du temps ?
Patrick Banon (Dico des signes et symboles religieux (French Edition))
I looked like trouble, but I was traditional. I’d been blue collar, but I liked bougie. I liked security, warmth, and home. My goals involved one day having a closet full of black sheath dresses and season tickets to the symphony.
Megan Montgomery (The Remains of Christmas)
The wine comes from a cask, and not one of the bougie ones either. I can smell it from the other side of the table: metho mixed with cat piss.
Gina Chick (We Are the Stars: A misfit's story of love, connection and the glorious power of letting go)