Quotes About Africadia

#1. I'm not saying people shouldn't apply themselves and work hard. You do have to try to make your own luck. But I know people firsthand who worked incredibly hard, who were really smart, who never got into trouble, and still didn't get a break.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#2. There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.

Cassandra Wilson

#3. My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#4. Wine is a much better salve than anything the medical profession has ever prescribed. Even the Bible condones it!

Jonathan Evison

#5. In school, I hated poetry - those skinny,
Malnourished poems that professors love;
The bad grammar and dirty words that catch
In the mouth like fishhooks, tear holes in speech.
Pablo, your words are rain I run through,
Grass I sleep in.

George Elliott Clarke

#6. For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement.

Ira Berlin