"There seems to be a pleTHORa of resentment" is an underappreciated line (or rather, an underappreciated word). Maya's original poem is incredibly underrated too. "When goodness shows in the way of the garden, it is like a three-pointer from Michael Jordan" pops into my head regularly.
"Baby, I love you! I know why the caged bird sings too: 'cause it wants to outdo me. But it won't. Ha! It won't. Because... I'm a phenomenal woman. THAT'S MEEEEEEEEEE!" The first time I read Phenomenal Woman, I legit read it in Whitney's voice.
"I'm sorry that I couldn't be there tonight. Unfortunately, they had me scheduled to do some things that I would actually enjoy. But you know what they say about absence, it's really so much better than actually attending. I first have to thank my Heavenly Father, JESUS, without whom I wouldn't have had the wisdom to decline the invitation."
"You wanna take....the top note....but you couldn't take....a tampon...to the funeral of Etta James" pops up into my head way too often.
"Okay, so I'm on my way to the festivities and I just hope that everything goes well. If it doesn't... one uses sunglasses to shade the classless. Oh... hold on... oh shit." "What is it?" "It's Patti. I told her I was gonna be fashionably late. She said, 'Okay, I hope you're riding in an ambulance because somebody needs the paramedics.'" "No way!" "I kid you NOT."
I had to take a break at work the other day to rewatch Crispy Business after this quote wouldn’t leave my head. Hit after hit after hit!
"If I said no to someone with mild relevance--" "Wait, mild?" "...then what bulletless gun are you holding thinking you have a shot?" This popped up in my head the other day and I couldn't stop cracking up for half an hour nn
"I've been working on my album, Side Effects Of You, it's in stores now. You can get it at Target, you can get it at Walmart, you can get it at Target."
I just had this phrase randomly pop into my head: "In Which Piglet Detects a Little Bit of Shade" It's made me think we need a whole series of G2BR- and Nekci-inspired Winnie-the-Pooh stories. "In Which Tigger Refuses to Be the Suspect" "In Which Rabbit Is the Best Sad Songer" "In Which Gopher Has a Coconut"
