Plantation Quotes
39 Plantation quotes by 36 unique authors
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My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.
— Diane Abbott
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
— Kamisese Mara
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It certainly makes sense to expand the pulp industry in Indonesia, .. It's clear that it will be a very competitive exporter of pulp to…
— David Walker
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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…
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
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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…
— Billie Holiday
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I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration- joy and pain sit side by side. The…
— Cornel West
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Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in the evenings, especially…
— Nicholas Sparks
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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…
— B B King
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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…
— Robert Wilson
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We worked over at that place The Plantation Inn with The Del Rios. It was really wild over there.
— William Bell
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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…
— Charles E. Merrill
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Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these hard, hard stories.
— Bobby Womack
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Brother and mi father afi chop sugar cane. Pon the plantation under stress and shame.
— Capleton
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My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers. They had been tenant farmers like so many people in the South. They…
— John Lewis
Who Wrote These Plantation Quotes
36 authors contributed a total of 39 Plantation Quotes, led by these top contributors: