Rebellion Quote by Donald Barthelme

“The Rebellion was gone, and a new government grew swiftly—if clumsily—in its place.”

— Chuck Wendig

“We’re strange people, soldiers stuck out in wars. We ain’t saying no laws in Washington. We ain’t walking on yon great lawns. Storms kill…

— Sebastian Barry

“No one wanted to get sent to Oklahoma, and that was exactly what would happen to you if you got out of line”

— Michael Bunker

“I noticed that the houses in Fort Smith were numbered but it was no city at all compared to Little Rock. I thought then…

— Charles Portis

Oklahoma Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain.

— Oscar Hammerstein II

“There was among the tribes in the fighting zone a nervous enthusiasm common, I suppose, to all national risings, but strangely disquieting to one…

— T.E.Lawrence

We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next…

— Mick Cornett

“America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil. Before the settlers, before the Indians... the evil was there... waiting.”

— William S. Burroughs

Oklahoma's the Bible Belt.

— Anita Bryant

“the air that had been still before swoops and tunnels through the clearing, raising dust, making the boys close their eyes. Maybe Daddy is…

— Jesmyn Ward

“And this was history now: heroic protest, concerted rebellion, execution of the tyrant, a new social order. It ran like a clear stream--useless to…

— Barry Unsworth

“Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois