Anthropologists recognize naming as ‘one of the chief methods for imposing order on perception.’ David S. Names are an important key to what a society values. Actually, ‘handle’ is the middle of my first name. The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. Bill MaherĪlways end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. Jim Bakker spells his name with two k’s because three would be too obvious. Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.
So those are barriers that you have to overcome. I don’t want anybody to say, Oh, she can’t pull this off. I’d be stupid not to take into consideration that there are certain things people will not consider me for because my name is Lopez.
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name. You’re not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.
