The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.'


Niger Innis

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX
Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON
Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH
It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON
It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON
Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON
I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT
I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES
About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS
You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN
I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN
Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN
I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL
Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
GORDON KORMAN
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA
Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA
Neapolitans have always had their fast food. It's called pizza.
LUCIANO DE CRESCENZO
I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON
It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are ...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER
Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
CHANDRA WILSON
I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no...
DAVE MUSTAINE
Barack Obama seems intent on enrolling more people on food stamps. Mitt Romney's focus is going ...
MIKE HUCKABEE
On 'Grey's Anatomy,' I didn't have to move too much. I think I ran through the hospi...
ERIC DANE
The number one mistake is giving pets table scraps. I made the mistake thinking I was showing my dog...
ALISON SWEENEY
My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of...
MOBY
The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the ver...
SALLY RIDE
In the United States, under 3 percent of municipal food waste - so that's the food scraps that g...
TRISTRAM STUART
They got rid of bottled water. We got thermoses that say 'Grey's Anatomy Season 4' with ...
BROOKE SMITH
It's called 'Night Moves,' and it's my favorite 'Doc Ford' of all times. It&...
RANDY WAYNE WHITE
It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other...
ANDREA BOCELLI
We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We a...
BARTON SEAVER
It's funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said 'Sparkle,' I thought, 'For...
JORDIN SPARKS
Is it a coincidence that in 1998, Barack Obama talks about a majority coalition of welfare recipient...
RUSH LIMBAUGH
If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day...
CESAR ROMERO
At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table...
DAMBISA MOYO
I know some of you don't care about food stamps, but I'm telling you if it feeds children, y...
ROBERT J. BENTLEY
I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation. I do think there's s...
MEGHAN MARKLE
I did a film when I was about 30; it's a coming of age story called 'Gas Food Lodging,' ...
ROBERT KNEPPER
The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare stat...
THOMAS SOWELL
If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say i...
TANITH LEE
We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.
ROBIN WILLIAMS
One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called thei...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
WHILE YOU WERE DOWN UNDER THE TABLE SEARCHING FOR TABLE SCRAPS THE FEAST WAS ON THE TABLE.
TRACY BROWN
It's important to have a healthy balanced diet but not to get too bogged down about it. It's...
KATIE TAYLOR
When I first started playing football, a headache was called a 'headache.' And now it's ...
JUNIOR SEAU
La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v...
PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA''
Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so...
CHRISTINE PELOSI
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
A. A. MILNE
Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that&#...
ELLEN BURSTYN
Vietnamese food has probably been saved from the mass market because most people never master the sa...
TYLER COWEN
I think, British food, it's had a bad rap.
APRIL BLOOMFIELD
That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
KIM STANLEY ROBINSON
While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what&...
DAVID ANTIN
I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful...
ROBERT BENTON
I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles,...
MICHAEL MOORE
A lot of the stuff that's happening now, I can trace back to 'Death of a Salesman.' Fran...
FINN WITTROCK
I don't know if you call a burger 'recession food.' It's comfort food.
MICHAEL MINA
Food from Quebec is not known to be amazing. Actually, even though you can eat really, really well i...
CHARLOTTE LE BON
In late 2001, I contributed a short story called 'Castaways' to an anthology called 'In ...
BRIAN KEENE
'Freaky Friday' was really fun. They had a ping-pong table on set because Jamie Lee Curtis i...
CAYDEN BOYD
Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.
BOB EHRLICH
We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.
NIGEL LAWSON
We'd go out in Larry's hippie van and drive out all around Dallas. He loved Chinese food, he...
STEVE KANALY
There was a best-selling book in the late '60s and '70s called 'The Adventurers' by ...
DAX SHEPARD
I always give RZA that support as far as saying he brought Wu-Tang to the table. It was his philosop...
RAEKWON
There's no such thing as 'bad' food or 'good' food.
ELLA WOODWARD
I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it&...
ALICE LOWE
I was upset about getting $40 haircuts, like, every month. That's a lot of money, and so, man, t...
STEVEN ADAMS
It's always on everyone's list, like, 'What's New Orleans like?' I think people ...
SUNG KANG
And I had to take care of a little dog too named Suzy. It was the promoter's wife's - Judy L...
MEL TILLIS
When it came to 'Binge,' it wasn't my intention to get on a little soapbox and have a te...
TYLER OAKLEY
I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's c...
ELLEN DEGENERES
South Korea's economy is still difficult. I will create a country where nobody worries about put...
PARK GEUN-HYE
For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or durin...
NIGER INNIS
After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enac...
NIGER INNIS
Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers...
NIGER INNIS
People are familiar with 'the stick' of the Tea Party... challenging incumbents, flooding th...
NIGER INNIS
There are compelling reasons to implement a true America First immigration plan, starting with borde...
NIGER INNIS
The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this ...
NIGER INNIS
Obamanomics, his imposition of European-style socialism, is not working for African-Americans. It is...
NIGER INNIS
When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individu...
NIGER INNIS
There is a genocide that is taking place among black men, in particular young black men, but it is n...
NIGER INNIS
Long before gun control was touted as 'common sense' measures, the concept was promoted as a...
NIGER INNIS
I know within my organization, within the grassroots of my organization of the Tea Party movement ge...
NIGER INNIS
I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a m...
JACOB LATIMORE
There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's...
JAMES WOLK
I think talking about one's love life is always... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in jo...
EMMA CAULFIELD
I come from a duo, actually, quite literally. My parents are Linda and Eddie, and they had an act in...
JENNY LEWIS
Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it&#...
ALICE WATERS
To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admittin...
JOHN RIDLEY
I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What...
EMMA WATSON
Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.
ALICE WATERS
What's disgusting about genetic modification of food? I speculate that many people have an immed...
CASS SUNSTEIN

More Niger Innis