"Southern food derives its strength from many cultures. It's a melding of food cultures from Native Americans, enslaved African-Americans, and Europeans."

-- Marcie Cohen Ferris

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“Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God.”
“If a girl is in love with a poor guy and chooses him, then that is worst for her. If she chooses a rich man, it will be to her advantage. Everything will be fine.”

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“Hope is the destination that we seek. Love is the road that leads to hope. Courage is the motor that drives us. We travel out of darkness into faith.”
“I dont see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we cant be amongst the most generous, from the grassroots up, nations in the world.”
“If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.”
“I believe that he who has less in life should have more in law.”
“If my life were a song, what would it be? 'A Never Ending Road of Musical Good Times'.”
“Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.”

Source : "Poetry and the Age" by Randall Jarrell, Vintage paperback, (p. 22), 1955.

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