Plantation Quotes

39 Plantation quotes by 36 unique authors

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background. — Diane Abbott
I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have. — Kamisese Mara
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We worked over at that place The Plantation Inn with The Del Rios. It was really wild over there. — William Bell
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
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
Brother and mi father afi chop sugar cane. Pon the plantation under stress and shame. — Capleton
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

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