Tag - Plantation Quotes

Discover the most impactful and inspirational quotes from the Plantation Quotes category. Here, you’ll find a diverse collection of motivation, wisdom, love, laughter, or a deeper understanding of life, our curated selection of quotes has something for everyone. Perfect for fans and those looking for motivation, our collection of Plantation Quotes will inspire and resonate with you.

Samuel Ervin Beam

I was raised in the suburbs. I wasn’t on a plantation or anything.

– Samuel Ervin Beam

Sam Phillips

I grew up on what everybody called a plantation – but believe me, it wasn’t a plantation. It was just an old farm. I grew up with a lot of black people working in the fields, and it was during the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor – black and white.

– Sam Phillips

Robert Wilson

What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter’s work is that she couldn’t read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. – the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages – in pictures.

– Robert Wilson

Rituparna Sengupta

In my little way I am trying to contribute to the Mother Nature by doing some terrace plantation.

– Rituparna Sengupta

Rhiannon Giddens

Well, you know, the original banjos were all handmade instruments. Gourd – it would be made with gourds and whatever, you know, materials would have been around. And, you know, first hundred years of its existence, the banjo’s known as a plantation instrument, as a black instrument, you know?

– Rhiannon Giddens

Rebecca Wells

I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn’t call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother’s peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read ‘The Piano Fairy Girl.’

– Rebecca Wells

Monica Galetti

I grew up in Samoa and, looking back, I don’t think I realised how wonderful life was back then. The chickens used to run wild on the family plantation and we’d collect their eggs. We’d pick guavas, pineapples, papayas. It was such a normal thing to do.

– Monica Galetti

Mohsin Hamid

I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn’t mix, don’t mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don’t talk about that, that itself is a political thing.

– Mohsin Hamid

Kamisese Mara

I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.

– Kamisese Mara

Julie Christie

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

– Julie Christie

Joshua Oppenheimer

I first went to Indonesia in 2001 for six months. I was to help a community of plantation workers to make a film documenting and dramatizing the struggle to organize a union in the aftermath of the Suharto dictatorship.

– Joshua Oppenheimer

Joshua Oppenheimer

I came across the Indonesian genocide in 2001, when I found myself making a film in a community of survivors. They were plantation workers, and it turned out they were struggling to organize a union.

– Joshua Oppenheimer

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