Folks Quotes
I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.
Black folks never bungie jump. That's too much like lynching for us. I'm gonna let you tie a rope around me and push me off a bridge? You must be out your damn mind.
Potatoes are very interesting folks. I think they must see a lot of what is going on in the earth - they have so many eyes.
You can fight a porcupine and win, but if other folks get a look at you they may think it's a bad idea to mess with porcupines.
Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.
A lot of folks are so busy trying to get their groceries together that they don't have time to do research. I have time. Maybe that's the main difference.
That ability to see the right choice, but not until several hours have passed since making the wrong one? That's what makes a person a dumbass, folks.
I start thinking: How many souls hip-hop has affected? How many dead folks this art resurrected? How many nations this culture connected? Who am I to judge one's perspective?
All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?
Seeing a black transgender woman embracing and loving everything about herself might be inspiring to some other folks.
I was the world's ugliest baby. I have photos of my folks leaving the hospital with sacks over their heads... I asked my mother how to turn off the electric fan. She said 'Grab the blade!
When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.
All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."
Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.
Our people were not happy. I knew at some point we were going to win. It's a little unfair, but that's the reality. To some degree, it became a one-game season for some folks.
Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.
In the end . . . . . . . Stand where we feel led. Stand straight, stand tall, and try to remember that other folks might be led to stand elsewhere.
The Word says God don't give us credit for lovin the folks we want to love anyway. No, He gives us credit for loving the unlovable.
For most Native Americans, there's no more offensive name in English. That non-Native folks think they get to measure or decide what offends us is adding insult to injury.
When I went south in the 1960s, I knew I could die. If I went down there and did what I did up in Chicago and made all of those hatin' white folks laugh, then I would have been defeated.
You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.
Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.
Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.
I found out everybody's different--the same kind of different as me. We're all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us.
It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.
Don't be shy about believing in your ideas - even if folks around you think you're crazy.
Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all.
We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.
You white folks have long been eating the white meat of the chicken. We Negroes are now ready for some of the white meat instead of the dark meat.
What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?
I figure a lot of folks are probably looking to find out if Moses Malone is into that stuff, but the closest I come to drugs is drinking a Coca-Cola. I don't want that cocaine; it's not for me.
If someone says to you, Go to an old-folks home, thats kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.
I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.
I think for folks of color the key to combatting racism period is a) trusting their instincts and b) solidarity with one another.
One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really many people acting in concert to make or protect their money.
We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep 'em.
