Folks Quotes - Page 11

• The only way for white folks to reclaim the full arc of their humanity, the full trajectory of their ethical content, of their ethical identity, is to surrender the white innocence that prevents them from being fully mature.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  White, Humanity, Identity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have dear friends in South Carolina, folks who made my life there wonderful and meaningful. Two of my children were born there. South Carolina's governor awarded me the highest award for the arts in the state. I was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. I have lived and worked among the folks in Sumter, South Carolina, for so many years. South Carolina has been home, and to be honest, it was easier for me to define myself as a South Carolinian than even as an American.

  Kwame Dawes

  Meaningful, Art, Children

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Martin Luther King was bumped off unjustly, Adam Clayton Powell was bumped off unjustly, they took my title unjustly, they killed Megers Ever unjustly, all the integrators who love white folks, was unjustly kicked out of Washington, they've been deprived of education and poverty throughout the country.

  Muhammad Ali

  Country, Kings, White

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• I don't even think Hillary Clinton's loyal to Bill Clinton, if you want to know the truth. And really, folks, really? Why should she be, right?

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Loyal, Want

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Most folks, when they see movies or hear records, need something that they find pulls them in, draws them in, and appeals to them beyond just the notes. For a record to be memorable and great, it has to have something of this quality. Exactly what that is, I don't know, but I think it has something to do with an atmosphere, an environment that is appealing and attractive. And the people that inhabit this environment have... almost a message for the rest of the world.

  Ry Cooder

  Memorable, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't believe, folks, that the media people you see on TV every day from NPR to CBS to ABC to NBC to wherever are ever gonna admit they're irrelevant, and they're not gonna start acting like it, and they're never gonna say, "Gee, you know what? We might have to alter the way we're -" It isn't gonna happen, even if it means the end of them.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Mean, Nbc

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.

  Cass McCombs

  Writing, Musician, Folk Music

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Congressman, would you agree with this? If I'm a leader and I'm seeing and I'm watching what everybody else is watching and an attack on Mosul is imminent, I'm saying bye folks, have a good time I'm moving into a different city.

  Donald Trump

  Moving, Cities, Bye

  Source: time.com

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• When you talk about the mental health problems, when people come back from war and combat and they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over and you're strong and you can handle it. But a lot of people can't handle it. And they see horror stories. They see events that you couldn't see in a movie, nobody would believe it.

  Donald Trump

  Strong, War, Believe

  "Veterans Advocate Fires Back at Donald Trump's PTSD Comments: "It's a Teachable Moment" by Peter Flax, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 3, 2016.

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• Hillary Clinton is raising your taxes, folks. You can look at me. She's raising your taxes really high. And what that's going to do is a disaster for the country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Looks, Clinton

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, October 10, 2016.

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• Plenty more of the Nays sound perfectly sincere, though. They may genuinely dislike [Bob] Dylan; they may even enjoy or admire him, but just don't think he's all that. Fair enough. The reaction of such folk seems to be chiefly amazement tinged with befuddlement: they've given him what? You're kidding me.

  David Bennun

  Thinking, Sound, May

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level.

  Jay Michaelson

  Long, Political, Levels

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• While [Bob] Dylan's folk fans thought he was selling out [in 1965-67], actually Dylan was lodging a stronger, deeper critique of American hypocrisy.

  Jay Michaelson

  Hypocrisy, Stronger, Fans

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I had a couple of Asian readers and other folks tell me, "Oh, you have a lot of sex in your writing."

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Sex, Couple, Writing

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• Look, the bottom line is, folks: They [Democrats] are unified. Their single objective is taking us out. We do not have that. Look at what's happening on our side. I mean, it's atrocious. It is actually embarrassing.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Looks, Lines

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• [Vernon Jordan] and [Bill] Clinton would be in the same golf cart, they'd been out there playing golf, and every other word, folks, was what people hate [Donald] Trump for today!

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Golf, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I was reading emails from women who are alternately chuckling or outraged. One of them said, "Do you hate women? Would you just be honest?" No, folks, no! It's quite the opposite.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Reading, Opposites

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When Donald Trump talks about the rigged, corrupt system, remember, he's standing up for the forgotten man and the forgotten woman. This is not about him. This is about the people. This is about folks who are white-knuckled at the end of each month trying to pay the bills. This is about the people who feel like their pressing their nose against the glass of the rigged system and can't get in, they're just watching everybody else benefit.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Men, White, Glasses

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Some folk want their luck buttered.

  Thomas Hardy

  Business, Luck, Want

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “The Mayor of Casterbridge”, p.107, Thomas Hardy

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• The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.

  Susan Orlean

  Opposites, Feelings, Genius

  "Snap" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 22, 2010.

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• A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.

  Mehmet Oz

  Believe, Years, Best Year

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• Seeing a patter doesn't mean you know how to put it all together. Take baby steps: don't focus on the folks whose skills are far beyond your own. When you're new to something-or you haven't tried it in a while-it can feel impossibly hard to get it right. Every misstep feels like a reason to quit. You envy everyone else who seems to know what they're doing. What keeps you going? The belief that one day you'll also be like that: Elegant. Capable. Confident. Experienced. And you can be. All you need now is enthusiasm. A little bravery. And-always-a sense of humor.

  Kate Jacobs

  Baby, Mean, Skills

  Kate Jacobs (2008). “Knit Two”, p.6, Penguin

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• When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Long, Done

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• Rant said that view of time was set up so folks won't live forever. It's the planned obsolescence we've all agreed to...'Nothing says you have to swallow this,' Rant told me. 'You can always just die.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Views, Forever, Obsolescence

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• That was the sort of everyday love I had to learn to contend with: if you grow up with it, it's hard to think you'll ever match it. I used to think it was difficult for children of folks who really loved each other, hard to get out from under that skin because sometimes it's just so comfortable you don't want to have to develop your own.

  Colum McCann

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

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