Extracted from infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, published by Free Press. Life On The Run Ayaan Hirsi Ali October 5, 2008. From inside the apartment, he could hear people calling him an infidel and debating whether to kill him on the spot.
Gertrude Stein, 1935. The sentence Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. was written by Gertrude Stein as part of the 1913 poem Sacred Emily, which appeared in the 1922 book Geography and Plays. In that poem, the first Rose is the name of a person. Stein later used variations on the sentence in other writings, and A rose is a rose is a rose is among her most famous quotations, often interpreted as meaning things are what they are, a statement of the law of identity, A is A.
The song offers Franklin as the world's foremost expert on heartbreak, which is, of course, one of the keys to her three decades of embodying the innovation and virtuosity of U.S. soul. An extraordinary piece of work, A Rose Is Still a Rose immediately establishes Hill as one of R&B's most gifted writer/producers. But what it does for Aretha Franklin is something trickier to bring off: It renders her legendary and contemporary all at once.