Folks Quotes

• Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Risk
  • Should
  • Hands

• Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.

  

  Eugene O'Neill
  • Eyes
  • Folks
  • Told

• Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Poverty
  • Average
  • Urban

• Personally, I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Fine
  • Folks
  • Mortality

• I don't mind the job of saying to white people, "Yes, this is what I think you need to know, this is what I think you've been missing." And it's my job to educate white folks every day.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Mind
  • Jobs
  • Missing

• I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Years
  • Folks

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