3 Quotes & Sayings By Dan Rhodes

Dan Rhodes is a writer who has been published in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and many other magazines and newspapers. He has written essays on politics, culture, and pop-culture. His books include: 'The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture,' 'The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture; 'Clarity: The Art of Thinking Clearly', and '20/20.'

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-Paint-My girlfriend is so besotted that she can't take her eyes off me. After we've turned out the light she puts on her night-vision goggles, and watched me as I sleep. Quite often I am woken by her sighing and involuntary yelps of happiness. This has been going on for years, and is showing no sign of abating. Once I asked her to stop all this infra-red activity, but it didn't really work; I'd wake up to find her covering me in luminous paint, and softly whispering, 'Sometimes I wonder if you know how much I love you. Dan Rhodes
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I fell in love the moment I saw her in her grandfather's kitchen, her dark curls crashing over her Portuguese shoulders. 'Would you like to drink coffee?' she smiled.' I'm really not that thirsty.'' What? What you say?' Her English wasn't too good. Now I'm seventy-three and she's just turned seventy. 'Would you like to drink coffee?' she asked me today, smiling. 'I'm really not that thirsty.'' What? What you say?' Neither of us has the gift of language acquisition. After fifty years of marriage we have never really spoken, but we love each other more than words can say. Dan Rhodes