Black Old Folks Quotes

#1. In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.

Michael E. Mann

#2. The TV shouted an old black-and-white film he didn't recognize, wheelchairs facing it like church pews.

Sere Prince Halverson

#3. With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises. Fluid prose, gore galore and all-too human characters make this unusual, fast-paced novella a must for fans who like their horror served blood-rare.

Kealan Patrick Burke

#4. It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

James McBride

#5. It's not a performance to impress the Puritans

Martin Tyler

#6. The English-Speaking world is divided into those who have read 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' and those who are going to read them.

SUNDAY TIMES

#7. It's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries.

Glenn Greenwald

#8. White people made up the n-word, they knew about racial jokes before anybody, and in their old movies and old cartoons they made fun of everybody, especially black folks. Racial jokes were not new to them.

Paul Mooney

#9. Adieu, dear heart, nothing but death can make me cease to love you.

Marie Antoinette

#10. I don't drink."
"Oh My God, a straight-edged demon! I freaking love it!

Rachel Hawkins

#11. I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in.

Po Bronson

#12. In this shifting landscape, we may tend to forget "what the old folks say." Most of us probably now realize that our ancestors did indeed have it right! Their common-sense ways allowed them to get through the worst of conditions throughout history and still we thrive from their bold undertakings.

Deborah L. Parker

#13. All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all alone by itself.

Anaxagoras

#14. I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my incarcerators though they sleep in warm beds, next to their wives, in their homes.

Eskinder Nega

#15. The old folks say there is only black and white. That may do for their tidy lives, but it doesn't apply to all of us. We, Supergirls for real and the wretched creature at my feet, live in the gray and the mist. We may never see the stars, but we believe in the dream of them.

Mav Skye

#16. A conquering force sustained the old folks and now centers us. Forming a collective of comeback saints, let us rally behind them and move forward. We're called to a new awakening and application of what we've learned from those who've looked over Jordan.

Deborah L. Parker

#17. Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing can meet, that want of the heart which all creation cannot supply.

Isaac Hecker

#18. Harpies, n. A disease transmitted to humans by birds with human faces.

Ron Brackin

#19. Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.

James Clavell

#20. How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?

Emile Hirsch