#folk

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

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A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much. ↗

— Chuck D.

#aim #always #black #even #everyone

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.' ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#god #mississippi #saying #texas #thank

I never saw myself as a folk singer. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#folk singer #i #myself #never #saw

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me. ↗

— Anatole France

#ever #folks #i #left #lend

These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools. ↗

— Bob Filner

#agencies #agents #behavior #border #border patrol

The life of the hero of the tale is, at the outset, overshadowed by bitter and hopeless struggles; one doubts that the little swineherd will ever be able to vanquish the awful Dragon with the twelve heads. And yet, ...truth and courage prevail and the youngest and most neglected son of the family, of the nation, of mankind, chops off all twelve heads of the Dragon, to the delight of our anxious hearts. This exultant victory, towards which the hero of the tale always strives, is the hope and trust of the peasantry and of all oppressed peoples. This hope helps them bear the burden of their destiny. ↗

— Gyula Illyés

#heroes #hungarian #story-telling #victory #courage

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it. ↗

— Steve Forbert

#changed #decades #folk-rock #hasn #much