“We've cut too much sugar cane, we've picked too much cotton, we've died too young, ... Don't give up now. It's dark, I know. But morning is coming.”
Jesse Jackson
“It beats picking cotton”
Proverb
“Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far.”
Muddy Waters
“There are so many commodities in the affected areas, like rice, cotton, sugar cane, cattle and chickens, ... Many grains that are stored can't handle the heat and humidity.”
Mike Johanns
“Slavery had just broke when my grandfather was born, so he came up through it - in the backdoors, picking cotton ... trying to make a living. So he grew up with hatred in his heart toward whites, but he had to make a living off them.”
Clarence Myles
“I asked Kenny to sit in. Richie Furay, Rusty Young and Paul Cotton (from Poco) were there, too.”
Jim Messina
“Where are the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?”
Spike Lee
