Folks Quotes
Folks Quote of the day
When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.
You know, old folks can have dreams, too, as well as young folks, and then work toward them. And to have a dream like this come true for me is just a terrific experience.
The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!
I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.
Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.
As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.
Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.
Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've got a good strong rope. Every Dharma is known in the heart.
Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?
Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.
I'm having a good time, Please don't blame me, I'm knocking myself out Don't try to tame me Let me have my fun, I've got to have my fling, Some folks say I'm blowing my top Talk don't mean a thing.
I'm glad folks think I look different, I'm living a different, happy, more fulfilling life, and I'm thrilled that perhaps it shows.
It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.
If I was going to play offense, I'd love to play running back. In high school I played quarterback and wide receiver, but I wouldn't mind running over some folks.
To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.
In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.
The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
Folks can believe what they like but eventually a man's got to declare if he's going to do what is right.
All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, 'Look at the poor dope, wilya?
Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room.
Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.
She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.
White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything - you know what I mean?
Here's the problem, we need folks like John Lewis and others who, I think, have been champions of voter rights, to actually recognize the fact that Donald Trump was duly elected.
Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
Folks need the Gospel. We need to have our hearts changed. We see people from a skewed point of view. We need to see people the way God sees them.
Have a plan. Follow the plan, and you'll be surprised how successful you can be. Most people don't have a plan. That's why it's easy to beat most folks.
The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.
I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my mind I would know my letters.
