Plantations Quotes - Page 4

• If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave owners without acknowledging the system they live, that's a political gesture.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Book, Writing, Two

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• My formative years, until I was 12, was all shaped by Jamaican culture, by that economy, by the people in my family, who are agriculturalists, who were plantation workers, who harvested those crops and took them down to the boats run by the United Food Company, to load those ships at night, hence all the songs that I sing that come from that environment.

  Harry Belafonte

  Running, Song, Night

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I remember, and I will never forget, one day - I was six years old and I was playing beside the road and this plantation owner drove up to me and stopped and asked me "could I pick some cotton." I told him I didn't know and he said, "Yes, you can. I will give you things that you want from the commissary store," and he named a huge list that he called off. I picked the 30 pounds of cotton that week, but I found out what actually happened was he was trapping me into beginning the work I was to keep doing and I never did get out of his debt again.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Years, Yes You Can, Giving

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Country, Race

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2915, Delphi Classics

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• I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations .

  Edmund Burke

  Book, Law, Branches

  Edmund Burke (1777). “The Political Tracts and Speeches of Edmund Burke”, p.382

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• My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

  Dolly Parton

  Doctors, Wind, Play

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• I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner's sons. If I could prove that, I'd own the whole goddamn everything.

  Eartha Kitt

  Children, Son, Cotton

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• The transformations of the French empire itself or of French power structures themselves as well as the emergence of a kind of language of equal rights starting with the American Revolution and the French Revolution provided an opportunity and in some ways connected with other kinds of ground level desires or hopes and ideologies for freedom that were coming out of the plantation regime itself.

  Laurent Dubois

  Opportunity, Rights, Desire

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 20, 2010.

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• I like being New Orleans. Different aspects. You have the lake house. You have a huge, almost plantation-style house, so I like the different elements of the city and what the city has to offer and putting it on the screen.

  Morris Chestnut

  Lakes, New Orleans, Cities

  "Morris Chestnut On When the Bough Breaks & Executive Producing". Screen Rant Interview, screenrant.com. August 12, 2016.

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• The process of creating art allows me to learn about the subject I'm illustrating. So, if I want to learn more about plantation life and slavery, I try to find clients that will give me an opportunity to work on projects that will visualize those experiences of the enslaved African and people of color. I get to learn about my roots, and my artwork allows the reader into that world by creating images that are accessible.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Art, Opportunity, Color

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

  William Bradford

  Father, Ocean, Plymouth

  Nathaniel Morton, William Bradford, Thomas Prince, Edward Winslow (1669). “New-England's Memorial”, p.23

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• I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration - joy and pain - sit side by side.

  Cornel West

  Pain, Moving, America

  Cornel West (2009). “Brother West”, p.4, Hay House, Inc

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• Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.

  Jane Austen

  Eye, Sight, Hands

  Jane Austen, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Jane Austen: All novels, short stories, letters and poems”, p.918, GENERAL PRESS

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