“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father had Cherokee blood in them. I was born and raised in Indian Territory. 'Course we're not the Americans whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but we met them at the boat when they landed.” IfsRunningMotherCoursesFatherBornBloodMetsDiversityRaisedFolksTrackBoatIndianTerritoryAncestorMother And FatherBorn And RaisedRight TrackCherokeeMayflower Author:Will Rogers
“From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two.” HeartTwoHandsMotherFatherBitsSonFolksContraryBroke Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“Alan Lomax is the person who I think should be given major credit for what has been called the "Folk Song Revival." My father participated with him because my father was a musicologist and urged trained musicians to learn about "the vernacular."” ThinkingShouldPersonsHas BeensSongFatherGivenMajorsMusicianFolksCreditRevivalVernacularFolk Songs Author:Pete Seeger
“Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.” FatherAncientFolksDefinitionsContemporaryFolk Music Author:Pete Seeger
“Trouble comes looking for you. Lots of times I just stay in the house and enjoy my family. I try to be a father to my child, I'll stay out of trouble if I can, because I have lots to do. Other folks have different hardships. It's hard for a black man to raise a family.” IfsMenTryingChildrenI CanDifferentHardFatherHouseEnjoyBlackTroubleMy FamilyRaisesFolksMy ChildrenHardship Author:Snoop Dogg
“Ladies and gentlemen, today we're here to honor electricity, the charge that charges everything from those electrons snapping in our brain to our father the sun. What's the sun It's kind of like a brain. Electromagnetic field, solar flares sparking back and forth from those nerve cells. We're all one, folks, giant blobs of electricity, all of us. Positive & negative, electromagnetic fields just circling each other. Positive, negative, north, south, male and female. Looking for that electric moment. Magnet to magnet, opposites attract.” KindMomentsTodayFatherBrainSunFieldsHonorNegativeFemaleOppositesSouthMalesFolksCellsGentlemanGiantsNervesElectricElectricityOur FatherBack And ForthMagnetElectronsOpposites AttractLadies And GentlemenFlareSnappingSparkingSolar Flares Author:Robin Green