Folks Quotes - Page 32

• When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.

  Cornel West

  People, Abuse, Ordinary

  FaceBook post by Dr. Cornel West from Jan 04, 2017

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• You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear, or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?

  Marshall McLuhan

  Dad, Men, Media

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• All B.S. aside, it all comes down to... we got to survive. I mean, even warriors put their spears down on Sundays. We got to survive here in this country... 'cause I'm not going back to Africa. We got to survive here. And for us to survive here-White folks, Black folks, Korean folks, Mexican folks, Puerto Ricans-we got to understand each other.

  Tupac Shakur

  Country, Mean, Warrior

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• You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.

  Russell Baker

  Smile, Opportunity, Feel Good

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• Life, as a part, is interwoven with the life of the whole, not only present, but past and future, for while men come and go the folk lives on, continuous, eternal, providing its members perform their duty to it. Thus, in identifying himself with his folk man prolongs himself through the multiplicity of his ancestors and his descendants, and thereby attains immortality.

  Colin Jordan

  Past, Men, Immortality

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• For all the folks getting excited about my quotes. Here is another - Yes, I am a terrible coder, but I am probably still better than you :)

  Rasmus Lerdorf

  Coders, Excited, Terrible

  Twitter post from Apr 19, 2010

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• Blind folk see the fairies. Oh, better far than we, Who miss the shining of their wings Because our eyes are filled with things We do not wish to see.

  Rose Fyleman

  Eye, Wings, Shining

  Rose Fyleman, “White Magic”

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• Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points.

  Texas Bix Bender

  Wire, Fence, Barbs

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• The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you're already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can't help you anymore. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They are extinct, they are extinction.

  Hugh Jackman

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• There's several ways of saying what's on your mind. And in states and counties where it ain't too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, or even vote like you want to, folks have found other ways of getting the word around. One of the mainest ways is by singing.

  Woody Guthrie

  Speak Your Mind, Healthy, Singing

  Woody Guthrie, Dave Marsh, Harold Leventhal (1992). “Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait”, Perennial

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• I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now.

  D. W. Griffith

  Girl, Men, People

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• When I get old, I'm going to the old folks' home. I don't want to be one of those guys who's hanging around the house bothering the kids. But not just any old folks' home. I want the whole top floor.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Home, Kids, House

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• In the first place, any group of folks willing to make asses of themselves in pursuit of a good time should be commended and encouraged: The spirit of human frolic needs all the help it can get.

  Molly Ivins

  Groups, Needs, Firsts

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• I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.

  Joe Klein

  Strong, Thinking, People

  "Joe Klein on the State of Democracy in America". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 22, 2006.

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• Remember that although they may speak a different language, they are still the same kind of people as the folks you know at home, have the same mental processes, are just as kindly and just as friendly. Remember that, quit talking and start over again - in pantomime.

  Wally Byam

  Home, Talking, People

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• Do not give the terrorists, the enemy combatants, the people who blow up folks at weddings, who fly airplanes into the twin towers, the ability to sue our own troops all over the country for any and everything.

  Lindsey Graham

  Country, Airplane, Blow

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• There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans.

  Barack Obama

  Native American, People, Want

  Remarks by the President on Immigration in Chicago, Illinois, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 25, 2014.

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• I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.

  Gene Robinson

  Gay, Thinking, Church

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• Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The way fall feels at night because of it, because of the crackling sound and walking around the sidewalks, like when you're a kid, and kicking those soft piles, and seeing smoke from backyards and Mr. Kilstrap standing over the metal drum with the holes in the top, the sparking embers at his feet.

  Megan Abbott

  Fall, Kids, Night

  Megan Abbott (2012). “Dare Me: A Novel”, p.70, Hachette UK

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• Some folks never try to grow beyond lives that have not realized that potential. And as long as they don't regret that, that's fine. Live and let live. But for those who regret never trying, it's a shame because the Web, as complex as it may seem, makes it all possible

  Ken Evoy

  Courage, Regret, Long

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• You all have opportunities and skills and education that so many folks who came before you never could have dreamed of. So just imagine the kind of impact that you're going to make. Imagine how you can inspire those around you to reach higher and complete their own education.

  Michelle Obama

  Inspiring, Graduation, Opportunity

  Remarks by the First Lady in Commencement Address to Dillard University, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 10, 2014.

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• It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Thinking, Long

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.238, Wordsworth Editions

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• Folks trying to plan their personal fiscal '15 are at a loss. They can't do a budget because they don't know what their health insurance costs will be.

  Hugh Hewitt

  Loss, Trying, Cost

  "How High Will Your Health Insurance Premiums Go In 2015?". townhall.com. October 28, 2014.

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• You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of the slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Taken, Mean, Talking

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• Being in space, I'm really looking forward to working with this team of folks that I'm with.

  Duane G. Carey

  Teamwork, Space, Looking Forward

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