Jesse Stone quote: "Rhythm and blues started even before phonograph records were being produced because black people entertained themselves. It wasn't done for money. It was done for entertainment. Most white people didn't know anything about this because prejudice kept them from ever seeing what was going on."

I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play...
JESSE STONE

Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Alm...
JESSE STONE

We need to work to keep from getting rusty.
JESSE STONE

Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision i...
JESSE KELLERMAN

Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained...
JESSE VENTURA

I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on e...
JESSE VENTURA

In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of...
JESSE VENTURA

I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my mana...
JESSE MCCARTNEY

I didn't really start doing stuff until I was 8 or so, but I was an extra in a bunch of differen...
JESSE PLEMONS

Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn't that be the job of your mom and d...
JESSE VENTURA

I think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with...
JESSE JACKSON

Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucr...
JESSE HELMS

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted an...
JESSE JACKSON

Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He'd better have a bodyguard.
JESSE HELMS

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to t...
JESSE LIVERMORE

For John Wilkes Booth, sweeping, grand gestures were a way of life. It was how he navigated his way ...
JESSE JOHNSON

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation...
JESSE JACKSON

I ought to be more hardboiled; I'd like to be. I don't think I have it in me. To write in cl...
JESSE KELLERMAN

Put none but Americans on guard tonight.
JESSE VENTURA

Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge...
JESSE VENTURA

First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one'...
JESSE BALL

There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is &...
JESSE WILLIAMS

Eating, and hospitality in general, is a communion, and any meal worth attending by yourself is impr...
JESSE BROWNER

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
JESSE JACKSON

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
JESSE JACKSON

Blackness is not a monolith. We are not homogenous people; we are not all the same.
JESSE WILLIAMS

I’m smart in some ways- pretty good vocabulary, solid at math – but I am definitely the stupides...
JESSE ANDREWS

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
JESSE JACKSON

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.
JESSE JACKSON

With This Time Lost, Comes Time To Spend.
To Spend On Love, Friends, Family, And Most Of All.. ...
JESSE HOLDEMAN

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indiffe...
JESSE JACKSON

America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the sa...
JESSE JACKSON

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
JESSE JACKSON

One chance is all you need.
JESSE OWENS

Your children need your presence more than your presents.
JESSE JACKSON

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
JESSE JACKSON

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determin...
JESSE OWENS

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The liv...
JESSE OWENS

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenvil...
JESSE JACKSON

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning come...
JESSE JACKSON

I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You c...
JESSE OWENS

Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so gr...
JESSE JACKSON

I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to gi...
JESSE BARFIELD

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white ...
JESSE JACKSON

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
JESSE JACKSON

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and s...
JESSE JACKSON

The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.
JESSE BENNETT

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
JESSE JACKSON

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself -- the invis...
JESSE OWENS

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
JESSE JACKSON

Wrestling is ballet with violence.
JESSE VENTURA

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
JESSE JACKSON

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and be...
JESSE JACKSON

To me, we must learn to spell the word RESPECT. We must respect the rights and properties of our fel...
JESSE OWENS

Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed...
JESSE SCHELL

I think that when Americans go to vote, states should not list what party the candidates are affilia...
JESSE VENTURA

Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge a...
JESSE VENTURA

Al Gore, you've been a real inspiration. But a lot of other people who preach the global warming...
JESSE VENTURA

In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.
JESSE EISENBERG

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent y...
JESSE JACKSON

I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public s...
JESSE WILLIAMS

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; swe...
JESSE JACKSON

To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn't say anything...
JESSE BALL

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.
JESSE VENTURA

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
JESSE JACKSON

Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down...
JESSE JACKSON

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
JESSE JACKSON

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but goo...
JESSE JACKSON

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
JESSE JACKSON

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a d...
JESSE JACKSON

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
JESSE JACKSON

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
JESSE JACKSON

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature...
JESSE JACKSON

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-det...
JESSE JACKSON

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.
JESSE JACKSON

Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy...
JESSE JACKSON

While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.
JESSE JACKSON

I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.
JESSE MCCARTNEY

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he...
JESSE VENTURA

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
JESSE JACKSON

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the m...
JESSE VENTURA

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in ...
JESSE JACKSON

To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, blac...
JESSE JACKSON

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
JESSE OWENS

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.
JESSE OWENS

Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.
JESSE OWENS

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
JESSE OWENS

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
JESSE OWENS

Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to...
JESSE OWENS

I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ...
JESSE OWENS

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
JESSE OWENS

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.
JESSE OWENS

Go to the internet and go to the FBI website and go to their international list of top ten terrorist...
JESSE VENTURA

You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You n...
JESSE VENTURA

If this were a video game, you could just break everything in this room and a bunch of money would c...
JESSE ANDREWS

And if a jock. God forbid, witnesses you hobnobbing with theater kids, he will immediately assume yo...
JESSE ANDREWS

Mom was asking me to resume a friendship that had no honest foundation and ended on screamingly awkw...
JESSE ANDREWS

this book probably makes it seem as if I hate myself and everything I do. I mostly just hate every p...
JESSE ANDREWS

When girls see two Unattractives dating, they think, 'Hey! Love is possible even for unattractive pe...
JESSE ANDREWS

I am the Thomas Edison of conversational stupidity.
JESSE ANDREWS

So in order to understand everything that happened, you have to start from the premise that high sch...
JESSE ANDREWS

But the hardest is watching your son watching his friend die.
JESSE ANDREWS

I mean, you can know someone is dying on an intellectual level, but emotionally it hasn't really hit...
JESSE ANDREWS

Theory: People always get fired up when an unattractive girl an unattractive dude are dating each ot...
JESSE ANDREWS

And the point of Rachel the Film should really have been to express how awful and shitty that loss w...
JESSE ANDREWS

There are two kinds of hot girls: Evil Hot Girls, and Hot Girls Who Are Also Sympathetic Good-Hearte...
JESSE ANDREWS

Are you done eating that?"
"What?"
"You shouldn't finish that, Dad's gonna want some." JESSE ANDREWS

I might accidentally become like a hermit or a terrorist or something.
JESSE ANDREWS

We used to be pretty good friends, but fourteen-year-old girls are psychotic.
JESSE ANDREWS

Usually it's when your guard is down that you find yourself saying the most dick sentences of your l...
JESSE ANDREWS

Look, I was an idiot. I didn't want people to think that I had a crush, so I decided to give everyon...
JESSE ANDREWS

let’s face it: Most girls are annoying. I mean, most humans are annoying, so it’s not specific t...
JESSE ANDREWS

I entered Excessive Modesty Mode. Nothing is stupider and more ineffective than Excessive Modesty Mo...
JESSE ANDREWS

This book probably makes it seem like I hate myself and everything I do. But that's not totally true...
JESSE ANDREWS

The best ideas are always the simplest.
JESSE ANDREWS

Girls like good-looking guys, and I am not very good-looking. In fact, I sort of look like a pudding
JESSE ANDREWS

The most beautiful thing about you is that you’re not a sock puppet.
JESSE ANDREWS

There was just something about her dying that I had understood but not really understood, if ...
JESSE ANDREWS

It's like when a kitten tries to bite something to death. The kitten clearly has the cold-blooded mu...
JESSE ANDREWS

One thing I've learned about people is that the easiest way to get them to like you is to shut up an...
JESSE ANDREWS

When you convert a good book to a film. stupid things happen
JESSE ANDREWS

If after reading this book you come to my home and brutally murder me, I do not blame you.
JESSE ANDREWS

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.
JESSE VENTURA

I think there are shows that are long-running and successful, where some or all of the cast members ...
JESSE METCALFE

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving...
JESSE EISENBERG

I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my busin...
JESSE HELMS

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become cor...
JESSE OWENS

I will say, I'm a great, great, great grandson of Stephen F. Austin. He founded Austin, Texas, w...
JESSE PLEMONS

It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a ...
JESSE JACKSON

I think it's just funny, the things that come out of people's mouths, whether it's a pol...
JESSE WATTERS

I don't have a type. But one thing I can say from my dating experience is that a physical attrac...
JESSE METCALFE

Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal...
JESSE VENTURA

We as men, in particular black men, are constantly supported, nurtured, forgiven, apologized for, le...
JESSE WILLIAMS

If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if y...
JESSE JACKSON

I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started tr...
JESSE EISENBERG

Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.
JESSE VENTURA

When I was a kid, I wanted to emulate Mel Blanc, who is arguably one of the most legendary voiceover...
JESSE MCCARTNEY

Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and ...
JESSE MCCARTNEY

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it an...
JESSE JACKSON

The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't s...
JESSE EISENBERG

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
JESSE JACKSON

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specifi...
JESSE EISENBERG

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invi...
JESSE OWENS

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in a...
JESSE JACKSON

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please...
JESSE JACKSON

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big ent...
JESSE HELMS

I'm not a phony-friendly guy and I'm usually very quiet and not a big laugher, so some peopl...
JESSE MCCARTNEY

Although one of his long-standing fantasies was to open a house of prostitution, the fantasy role he...
JESSE KORNBLUTH

I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He wo...
JESSE VENTURA

I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what R...
JESSE VENTURA

Malicious lying is usually a matter of need, but often the cruelest things we say are the truth.
JESSE BALL

I was 3 and a half, and there was an open call for a Coca-Cola commercial. We were living around Dal...
JESSE PLEMONS

I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Cadd...
JESSE VENTURA

And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms ...
JESSE EISENBERG

I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.
JESSE EISENBERG

Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.
JESSE METCALFE

'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.
JESSE VENTURA

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.
JESSE VENTURA

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It te...
JESSE VENTURA

Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and call...
JESSE JACKSON

There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of cou...
JESSE EISENBERG

When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault...
JESSE JACKSON

Everybody is playing games. There are games now for pretty much every age, every demographic.
JESSE SCHELL

I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot...
JESSE VENTURA

When you drink fluoridated water, you're drinking liquid Prozac. You drink enough of it, even th...
JESSE VENTURA

There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who...
JESSE JACKSON

When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to i...
JESSE EISENBERG

I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, bu...
JESSE VENTURA

My mother was not the cook in the family. My dad was. I'd watch him behind the grill, and I said...
JESSE MCCARTNEY

Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assist...
JESSE VENTURA

If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's...
JESSE EISENBERG

You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate...
JESSE VENTURA

I have metal in my body, so every time I go to an airport, the metal detector goes off.
JESSE VENTURA

Trying to catch hold of yourself is a fool's errand. There is no you, only a series of former yo...
JESSE KELLERMAN

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
JESSE JACKSON

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
JESSE JACKSON

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dung...
JESSE JACKSON

I CAN is 100 times more important than IQ
JESSE JACKSON

I'm not really putting this very well. My point is this: This book contains precisely zero Important...
JESSE ANDREWS

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and...
JESSE STUART

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of c...
JESSE OWENS

The idea of selling out is not so much a dollar amount, but are you sacrificing the service to the c...
JESSE SANCHEZ

People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to g...
JESSE EISENBERG

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself -- the invisi...
JESSE OWENS

The governor does not stand to gain from this matter being delayed. I've met with governors who are ...
JESSE JACKSON

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself -- the invisib...
JESSE OWENS

I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose...
JESSE OWENS

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.
JESSE OWENS

I always loved running / it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You co...
JESSE OWENS

If it's clay, it pretty much means it was here before 10,000 B.C.. Most archaeologists don't believe...
JESSE OWENS

It took a lot of courage for him to befriend me in front of Hitler,
JESSE OWENS

The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard ...
JESSE JACKSON

I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on...
JESSE EISENBERG

As far as I can see, the best writers in the last two hundred years have been Whitman, Rilke, Proust...
JESSE BALL

There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked...
JESSE KELLERMAN

If the trip was sanctioned by the president, it would be defeated before we leave.
JESSE JACKSON

Everyone always told me I was fated to be in front of the camera.
JESSE BRADFORD

Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider.
JESSE EISENBERG

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it'...
JESSE JACKSON

All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family a...
JESSE MCCARTNEY

Rhythm and blues started even before phonograph records were being produced because black people entertained themselves. It wasn't done for money. It was done for entertainment. Most white people didn't know anything about this because prejudice kept them from ever seeing what was going on.

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