The Coon Quotes

#1. The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.

Bob Dylan

#2. A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories.

Bert Williams

#3. Why don't somebody print the truth about our present economic situation? We spent six years of wild buying on credit - everything under the sun, whether we needed it or not - and now we are having to pay for 'em, and we are howling like a pet coon.

Will Rogers

#4. I don't see how anything like that can keep a coon in a tree," I said. "It'll keep him there all right," Grandpa

Wilson Rawls

#5. You might be a redneck if your biggest ambition in life is to git that big ole coon. The one what hangs 'round over yonder, back'ah Bubba's barn ...

Jeff Foxworthy

#6. Unless you see de fur, a mink skin ain't no different from a coon hide.

Zora Neale Hurston

#7. You might be a redneck if your momma tore her best dress coon hunting.

Jeff Foxworthy

#8. I collect old Coon Chicken Inn memorabilia. I collect black memorabilia, like old minstrel posters. It was a real place. There was one in Seattle, one in Portland, and one in Salt Lake City. They started in 1925, and then they went out of business around 1958.

Terry Zwigoff

#9. I come from a long line of serial embellishers. Sometimes a good story's got a ghost in it; sometimes a panther chases my Uncle Bill and Fred Price home from a coon hunt.

Tony Earley

#10. The old he-coon walks just before the light of day.

Lawton Chiles

#11. Carleton Coon of the University of Pennsylvania suggested that some modern races have different sources of origin, implying that some of us come from superior stock to others.

Bill Bryson