“These negroes aren't asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation.” — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I grew up on a plantation in Alabama in a small town outside of Montgomery. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
I was raised in the suburbs. I wasn't on a plantation or anything. — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
We worked over at that place The Plantation Inn with The Del Rios. It was really wild over there. — William Bell Copy Share Image
Brother and mi father afi chop sugar cane. Pon the plantation under stress and shame. — Capleton Copy Share Image
In my little way I am trying to contribute to the Mother Nature by doing some terrace plantation. — Rituparna Sengupta Copy Share Image
“Anyone who will eat his seeds today will be hungry tomorrow because he has nothing to plant and nothing to harvest later.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these… — Bobby Womack Copy Share Image
I was forced away from the plantation because I wouldn't go back and withdraw, you know, my literacy test after I had… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
There are times of great beauty on a coffee farm. When the plantation flowered in the beginning of the rains, it was… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats - the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms - while the field hands… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
If Mr. Ware does not want republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for,… — Charles E. Merrill Copy Share Image
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
One of the stories that dominates our family literature was the fact that my maternal grandfather contracted for - I don't know… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
I had to leave, and my husband was forced to stay on this plantation until after the harvest season was over. And… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
“And, you see, the little boy’s father was working hard to make the Negroes sweat on the peanut plantation, and he thought… — Michèle Audin Copy Share Image
I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation,… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“On the day of their arrival on Hazel Hill my family’s history and fortunes—and my own heritage—were first indissolubly linked with the enslavement… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
“The body count alone marks the plantation as a sacred place, and yet that's not what hallows the grounds to most. Traditionally,… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Negro slavery, thus, had nothing to do with climate. Its origin can be expressed in three words: in the Caribbean, Sugar; on… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
“Freedom was a thing that shifted as you looked at it, the way a forest is dense with the trees up close… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Rosewood Plantation off Byhalia Road. I was a pre-teenager when this happened.” — Nina Lautner Copy Share Image
“About ten years. My father had a tea plantation near Trincomalee. I was born” — Lindsay Jayne Ashford Copy Share Image
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter,… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle… — Julie Christie Copy Share Image
You have a plantation where you have 10 white people and you have about 50 or 60 black people. The automatic thought… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old… — Sam Phillips Copy Share Image
