I don't trust books. They're all fact, no heart. And that's exactly what's pulling our country apart today. Because face it, folks, we are a divided nation. Not between Democrats or Republicans, or conservatives and liberals, or tops and bottoms. No, we are divided by those who think with their head, and those who know with their heart.
It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.
Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night
The only way for white folks to reclaim the full arc of their humanity, the full trajectory of their ethical content, of their ethical identity, is to surrender the white innocence that prevents them from being fully mature.
I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it.
In 2010 there were a lot of folks who were still out of work. There were a lot of folks who had lost their homes or saw their home values plummet, their 401k's plummet.
Seeing a black transgender woman embracing and loving everything about herself might be inspiring to some other folks.
I never saw myself as a folk singer.
Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.
I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
Since the late 1970's, the main focus of prisons has been punishment, not rehabilitation. It's hard to believe, but you would be hard-pressed to find a meaningful violence-prevention class in a federal or state penitentiary. And 'we the people' are footing the bill to keep these folks imprisoned. It costs on average $46,000 a year to keep an adult incarcerated in California and about the same for New York State.
Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their own inside.
Missionaries are very human folks, simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt somebody.
Those aren't the kinds of folks who represent our core American values.
Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight.
I drive a V10 Ford Excursion and I have to tell folks all the time: look I've got five kids and a dog and birds. I would have to have two Lincolns with two V8s, you see, so it would be 16 cylinders.
It's wanting that gets so many folks in trouble.
The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.