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Plantation Quotes

As long as you’re scared you’re on the plantation Picture Quote #1

I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have Picture Quote #1

When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And I met an Afro-American woman who was a painter. I already had some idea of what I wanted to do in life, and one of the things that interested me was painting Picture Quote #1

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman who owns a coffee plantation! When you are talking about a woman writer coming from a hot country, there’s a complete assumption that she is writing about her own life Picture Quote #1

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The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly ‘cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field Picture Quote #1

When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called Picture Quote #1

Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these hard, hard stories Picture Quote #1

To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It’s the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them Picture Quote #1

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India Picture Quote #1

We worked over at that place the Plantation Inn with the Del Rios. It was really wild over there Picture Quote #1

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If Mr. Ware does not want republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for, and they will leave his plantation at once Picture Quote #1

I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and that is largely true Picture Quote #1

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background Picture Quote #1

Women, who are the prime victims of religion, and perhaps in some, stockholm syndrome effect, often form the most fervent advocates of the very thing that degrades them. I believe that in the end, it will be women who will turn this around. This should be the final stage of feminism. For a feminist to still believe in God is like a freed slave still living on the plantation Picture Quote #1

In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves Picture Quote #1

I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand Picture Quote #1

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You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation Picture Quote #1

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times Picture Quote #1

The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that’s what gave me the strength Picture Quote #1

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As long as you’re scared you’re on the plantation (Plantation Quotes) I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have (Plantation Quotes) When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And I met an Afro-American woman who was a painter. I already had some idea of what I wanted to do in life, and one of the things that interested me was painting. (Plantation Quotes) I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress (Plantation Quotes) 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. (Plantation Quotes) Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman who owns a coffee plantation! When you are talking about a woman writer coming from a hot country, there’s a complete assumption that she is writing about her own life. (Plantation Quotes) The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly ‘cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field. (Plantation Quotes) When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called. (Plantation Quotes) Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these hard, hard stories. (Plantation Quotes) To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It’s the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them (Plantation Quotes) My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India (Plantation Quotes) We worked over at that place the Plantation Inn with the Del Rios. It was really wild over there (Plantation Quotes) If Mr. Ware does not want republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for, and they will leave his plantation at once (Plantation Quotes) I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and that is largely true (Plantation Quotes) My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background (Plantation Quotes) Women, who are the prime victims of religion, and perhaps in some, stockholm syndrome effect, often form the most fervent advocates of the very thing that degrades them. I believe that in the end, it will be women who will turn this around. This should be the final stage of feminism. For a feminist to still believe in God is like a freed slave still living on the plantation (Plantation Quotes) In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves (Plantation Quotes) I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand (Plantation Quotes) You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation (Plantation Quotes) All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times (Plantation Quotes) The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that’s what gave me the strength (Plantation Quotes)