Folks Quotes

America is concerned more with the possibility of moon folks than the reality of hungry poor folks.

What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.

On the road of life... Meet people where they are, Accept who they are. And there are some folks that you need to leave where they are... Keep walking.

They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all shook up.

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

We [people] need to stop lumping folks together and start living together. Otherwise, we're going to kill each other off because you don't believe what I believe. That's crazy.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

If you will make the sacrifices now that most people aren't willing to make, later on you will be able to live as those folks will never be able to live.

...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

You keep folks so intimidated. You can give them money, access, but they're still scared. And as long as you're scared, you're on the plantation.

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

White folks' greed runs a world in need.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

I don't have room in my life for folks that large and demanding.

The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're doing

Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching the same way then that we're doing right now?

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies

I believe if the viewing of slaughter was required to eat meat, most folks would become vegetarians.

Folks talk too fast, and don't understand what they talkin' about.

We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance to play in a beer joint, and that's how it started.

Keep on complaining about slavery and that was over 40 to 50 years ago. You know, black folks need to move on.

My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.

Today, folks, should be all about love. Unless you're old.

When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth.'

We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.

I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.

I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in action folks! You know he's got God on his side.

This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.

Folks differs, dearie. They differs a lot. Some can stand things that others can't. There's never no way of knowin' how much they can stand.

I went to a number of women's groups and said, "Can you help us find folks," and they brought us whole binders full of women.

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.

It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.

The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

Folks, I've had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it, I'll see you down the road.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Those folks who try to impose analog rules on digital content will find themselves on the wrong side of the tidal wave.

Don't tell me it doesn't work. Torture works. Okay, folks?

Without God, I don't see how folks cope.

Of course the Devil is laughing at folks for believing it [Big Bang, etc.]. But hey, it works, it sends 'em to Hell, so he'll use it.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

Old folks are the nation.

It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.