Son House famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
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Folks talk too fast, and don't understand what they talkin' about.
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Ain't but one kind of blues and that consists of a male and female that's in love.
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The blues is not a plaything like some people think they are.
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Don't never follow your first mind, cause that's the one that's wrong. 'Cause the Devil beats God to you every time.
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You can sing the blues in church if you use the words right.
-- Son House
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The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.
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I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on 'Seinfeld'.
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She started walking toward me and perfect white teeth caught her full bottom lip between them. I’d fantasized about those lips way too many times. She’d barely covered up her long tanned legs with a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church this Sunday just to thank God for creating her.
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All the Muslims are happy, and Godwilling this earthquake... will be felt right up to the White House.
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I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.
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People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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I love folk; that's a big part of my background.
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When millions of Americans are tightening their belts, folks have the right to expect their elected officials to do the same.
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Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
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