Folks Quotes - Page 36

• The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.

  Langston Hughes

  Death, Fall, Phones

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.15, Hill and Wang

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• These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.

  Langston Hughes

  White, Feet, Miles

  Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.22, University of Missouri Press

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• I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them.

  Malcolm X

  White, Massachusetts, Maids

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• Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

  Harper Lee

  Knowing, Literature, Mockingbird

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• Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

  Ovid

  Marriage, Society, Dowry

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

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• You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries.

  Israel Zangwill

  Thinking, Islands, Race

  Israel Zangwill (2015). “The Melting Pot”, p.38, Israel Zangwill

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• Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.

  Kin Hubbard

  Pay, Pockets, Flattery

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• When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.

  Kin Hubbard

  Moral, Opinion, Conformity

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• I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.

  Josh Billings

  Hypocrisy, Trouble, Bother

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Commitment, Intelligent, Past

  "A grand finale" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2002.

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• Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.

  Dick Gregory

  Respect, Confused, Rights

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• Clergy are men as well as other folks.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Clergy, Wells

  Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy (1783). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: With the Life of the Author. In Twelve Volumes. A New Edition. To which is Now First Added, The Fathers; Or, The Good-natured Man”, p.113

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• I struggled with being in the public eye, losing my anonymity when my star rose quickly in the late 90's. But I need the challenge of showing up and getting up there to spill my guts and connect with my loyal folks.

  Paula Cole

  Stars, Eye, Rose

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• Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

  Austin O'Malley

  Truth, Handle, Handle The Truth

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• Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.

  John Barth

  Simple, Soul, Deeds

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• White folks still in the lead.

  Louis Armstrong

  White, Racism, Stills

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• I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday.

  Jeannette Walls

  Holiday, Black, Bakers

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• The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.

  Northrop Frye

  Character, Tennessee, Kind

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.449, University of Toronto Press

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• Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.

  William Greider

  Half, Economic, Economy

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• I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.

  Mel Torme

  Song, Eight, Here I Am

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• If you are looking for Christ in folks you will not be dwelling on their faults.

  Charles E. Fuller

  Jesus, Dwelling, Faults

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• My folks were English . . . we were too poor to be British.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, England

  Bob Hope (2004). “Bob Hope”, Hyperion

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• A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the Soviet Union. He had learnt it at elementary school; at secondary school; at his sports club; at the Komsomol; at the university; at a folk dancing course; at the chess-club.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Sports, Humorous

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• [Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with their backs turned when you are responding to the remarks that they have made you.

  Henry James

  Science, Noise, Biographies

  Henry James, Jack Kerouac (1999). “Henry James: A Life in Letters”, Viking Press

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• Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

  George Iles

  Education, Science, People

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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