“I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.” IfsTryingLooksHelpingUseNamesBlackBrotherToolsSouthCommandSouth AfricaFloodBusinessmanPersuasionEducatorClout Author:Arthur Ashe
“I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife! stuck away in some little mouse-trap of a room encouraged by one in-law to visit another little birdlike women without any nest eating the crust of humility all their life! Is that the future that we've mapped out for ourselves?” KnowsWellsLittlesLawLife IsRoomsCasesWifePositionHumilityBrotherHusbandEatingPreparedSouthStuckTrapsMiceNestsIn-lawsPitifulUnmarriedMarried WomenPatronageSpinstersMouse Traps Book:The Glass Menagerie Source: The Glass Menagerie
“When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.” KnowsBigsSeemsAmericaYoungWhiteRecordsPlayerBrotherListeningBandJazzSouthSingersMy BrotherSouth AfricaDukesSaxophoneKittiesNinaVocalistJazz BandRecord Players Author:Miriam Makeba
“Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.” FirstsHumansBrotherSouthLegsSpotsMeant To BeRootedAnnualsRoost Author:Mitchell Burgess
“Being a military child, we moved a lot and we developed different vernaculars from moving from the south, to the Midwest, and seeing the world. Going from New York to California and from Jamaica Queens to the South, I was always the new kid, or had the army crew haircut. I expected people to pick up on me. My brother kinda stole all of my old jokes. He got his inspiration from me.” PeopleWorldChildrenDifferentInspirationKidsMovingSeeingMilitaryNew YorkBrotherJokesPicksArmyMovedSouthExpectedCaliforniaQueensMy BrotherCrewHaircutsSeeing The WorldMidwestJamaicaOld Jokes Author:Joe Torry
“The King had been a good friend of the government and the people of South Africa and we all mourn his passing with our brothers and sisters in Saudi Arabia.” PeopleGovernmentBrotherKingsSouthPassingPassingsSouth AfricaGood FriendBrothers And SistersMournArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudis Author:Thabo Mbeki
“New Rule: If you still think Obama is a Muslim, you just might be a redneck. A Christian church in South Carolina has a sign out front that says 'Obama... Osama... Hmmm... Are they brothers?' No, they're not brothers. In fact, they're not even related, which is more than I can say for the married couples in your church.” IfsThinkingStillsI CanFactsMightChristianChurchFrontsBrotherCoupleMarriedSouthRelatedRedneckCarolinaChristian ChurchSouth CarolinaMarried CouplesHmmm Author:Bill Maher
“I understand the rural south because I spent a lot of time in it when I was a kid and my grandfather’s brothers were farmers and I spent time on the farm when I was a kid with them walking through the fields and working and hanging out.” KidsFieldsBrotherWalkingSouthHanging OutFarmsFarmersGrandfatherMy Grandfather Author:Samuel L. Jackson
“When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, 'One of these days I'm going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.' That's all I've ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.” YearsBigsCareWantedBeautifulLife IsUsedMotherFatherHouseStrongSidesFourBrotherSouthSevenTake CareNineThese DaysMinistersChicagoMamaLiving OnNine Years Author:Mr. T
“As for Kim Jong-un, first of all, he tried to kill his half brother in 2012, and according to South Koreans, the half brother, Kim Jong-nam actually wrote a letter to Kim Jong-un pleading with him not to do that anymore.” FirstsHalfBrotherLettersSouthKoreanKimPleading Author:Christopher R. Hill
“And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.” HomeMotherFatherSidesCitiesBrotherDaughterBlueSouthRaisedWorkersMy BrotherChicagoCollarsBlue Collar Author:Michelle Obama