Mother and father Quote by John Lewis

My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.

— John Lewis

My grandmother was a sharecropper. That wasn't even that long ago! My grandma was a sharecropper.

— Cordae

When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents,…

— Alice Walker

We were sharecroppers - we were a little bit of everything. We farmed and tried to make something.

— Buck Owens

One of the stories that dominates our family literature was the fact that my maternal grandfather contracted for - I don't know under what…

— Ella Baker

Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.

— Afeni Shakur

My parents were sharecrop farm kids with no education - seventh, eighth grade.

— Rodney Crowell

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

— Alice Walker

I had to leave, and my husband was forced to stay on this plantation until after the harvest season was over. And then the…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community of people…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I come from a family that has grown their own food from well into times of slavery, provided for themselves and people around them.…

— Lizz Wright

My siblings and I were raised like tenants, to be honest. There was a total absence of intimacy in my family, though there was…

— Sufjan Stevens