Quotes of Plantation - somelinesforyou

“ You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation. ”

- Billie Holiday

“ Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it. ”

- Thomas Szasz

“ I was born in Rolling Fork and raised up in a little town called Clarksdale. When I went back to play some music in Rolling Fork, I had records out then. I wasn't raised in Rolling Fork. I was born there, and came away from there when I was 2 years old… ”

- Muddy Waters
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