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“The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't find its enemy, for the sake of the enraged folks back home, it will have to manufacture one. Once war begins, it will develop a momentum, a logic and a justification of its own, and we'll lose sight of why it's being fought in the first place.”

Ifs Firsts Wells War Home America Loses Enemy Trouble Return Logic Sight Sake Folks Justification Momentum Back Home

Book:Power Politics

Source: Power Politics

“White folk done took this country. You're in their home, and they're gonna let you know it.You are not now, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be a brother to white folk and if you do not realize that, you are in serious trouble.”

Ifs Knows Country Done Home Realizing White Trouble Serious Brother Folks

Author:Jeremiah Wright

“God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. ... Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Sometimes God Trouble Yeah Folks Manifest

Book:Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism

Source: Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism

“Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.”

Easy Trouble Mines Folks Fur

Book:Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

Source: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

“A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his conscience provided, of course, that he possesses one. As a performing artist, he will pride himself on timing and other techniques designed to keep the audience in his control ... his respect for genuine folklore reminds him that these changes, and these techniques, may give the audience a false picture of folk music.”

“if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.”

Ifs Hate Chance Trouble Racism Prejudice Folks Graves Pet Buried Chances Are Racial Prejudice

Book:Let Us Consider One Another

Source: Let Us Consider One Another

“The whole trouble with a folk song is that once you have played it through there is nothing much you can do except play it over again and play it rather louder. Most Russian music, indeed, consists in ringing changes on this device, skilfully disguised though the fact may be.”

May Play Whole Facts Song Can Do Trouble Folks Devices Folk Songs

Author:Constant Lambert

“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.”

Ifs Men Trying Children I Can Different Hard Father House Enjoy Black Trouble My Family Raises Folks My Children Hardship

Author:Snoop Dogg

“Have you folks been following the controversy with John Kerry and his service in Vietnam and the Swift Boat campaign? It all took place in Vietnam and now it just won't go away. I was thinking about this - if John Kerry had just ducked the war like everybody else he wouldn't have this trouble.”

Ifs Thinking War Trouble Folks Following Campaigns Boat Going Away Vietnam Controversy John Kerry

Author:David Letterman

“It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome.”

Trouble Healthy Doctors Sick Folks Troublesome

Author:Josh Billings

“There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born with money, some with none. In the end it is up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matters. It is character that counts.”

Men War Ends Matter Hard Character Born Trouble He Man Disease Folks Hard Times Famine

Author:Louis L'Amour

“We Logans don't have much to do with white folks. You know why? 'Cause white folks mean trouble.”

Knows Mean Causes White Trouble Folks

Book:Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Source: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry