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it ain't as hard as picking cotton


Wynton Marsalis


#american #bebop #family #jazz #life

At first, I was shocked that Diane could even suggest this family reunion [on television], and then I realized this is just the way of the world, or at least the way of fin de siecle America. Not only would the next revolution be televised, but so would every other little stupid thing. It was already happening: Television reunions between adopted children and their birth parents...


Elizabeth Wurtzel


#society #television #family

On Slavery: The saddest slap in the face is we have NO monument, no real statues or memorials, no special day of Atonement or Remembrance (NOT ONE), no thanks for 400+ years of free labor, forced servitude across the Trans-Atlantic, ass beatings, buying ourselves and families out of slavery, rape and plunder...but everyone else has monuments, special museums, and even movies. This is what America thinks of black people, so-called black president and all, who has been largely silent on this subject...we'll even celebrate Leprechauns, Easter Bunnies, and Secretary's Day before we acknowledge our history.


Brandi L. Bates


#african-americans #black-panthers #black-people #blacks #huey-newton

Maybe that's what living in America does to you: it spreads you into far distances until you're just little bits rolling apart.


Marina Budhos


#family #immigration #family

I am pleased to see that information campaigns, such as the America's WETLAND effort, are getting the message out, and people are beginning to realize that wetlands loss in Louisiana affects us all.


John Breaux


#am #america #beginning #campaigns #effort

Can I dwell on what I scarce remember? I held a castle on the Marches once, and there was a woman I was pledged to marry, but I could not find that castle today, nor tell you the color of that woman's hair. Who knighted me, old friend? What were my favorite foods? It all fades. Sometimes I think I was born on the bloody grass in that grove of ash, with the taste of fire in my mouth and a hole in my chest. Are you my mother, Thoros?


George R.R. Martin


#beric-dondarrion #blood #fire #hole #knight

[Martin Luther King] said that little black boys and little black girls would be able to join hands with little white boys and little white girls as sisters and brothers. Then he reminded both those spectators before him and all Americans that this hope of his, this faith, was rooted in the promise of America.


Keith Ellison


#civil-rights #inspirational #politics #promises #united

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.


Benjamin C. Bradlee


#american politics #bodies #clout #had #history

You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.


Charlaine Harris


#humor #romance #sookie-stackhouse #true-blood #humor

I don't believe there's any problem in this country, no matter how tough it is, that Americans, when they roll up their sleeves, can't completely ignore.


George Carlin


#humor #humor