Famous quotes containing the word folks:
“And they heaved a mighty breath, every soul on board but me,
As they saw her nose again pointing handsome out to sea;
But all that I could think of, in the darkness and the cold,
Was just that I was leaving home and my folks were growing old.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“You know, honey, us colored folks is branches without roots and that makes things come round in queer ways.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“As a beauty I’m not a great star.
Others are handsomer far;
But my face—I don’t mind it
Because I’m behind it;
It’s the folks out in front that I jar.”
—A.H. Euwer (1877–?)