Plantation Quotes

“Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as treating the Congress of the United States like 'a plantation,' adding in a significant tone of voice that 'you know what I mean ...'

She did not repeat this trope, for some reason, when addressing the electors of Iowa or New Hampshire. She's willing to ring the other bell, though, if it suits her. But when an actual African-American challenger comes along, she rather tends to pout and wince at his presumption (or did until recently).”
― Christopher Hitchens

“It was important to name this house, but not the way "Sweet Home" or other plantations were named. There would be no adjectives suggesting coziness or grandeur or the laying claim to an instant, aristocratic past. Only numbers here to identify the house while simultaneously separating it from a street or city—marking its difference from the houses of other blacks in the neighborhood; allowing it a hint of the superiority, the pride, former slaves would take in having an address of their own. Yet a house that has, literally, a personality—which we call "haunted" when that personality is blatant.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“The conquered roam free in the box of insanity.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“No doubt about it, society was small. Most human beings existed on the outer fringes of society. In the seventeenth century, for example, at least twenty percent of the merchandise on every slave ship died. By that I mean the dark-skinned people who were being transported for sale, to Virginia, say. And that didn't get anyone upset or make headlines in the Virginia papers or make anyone go out and call for the ship captain to be hanged. But if a plantation owner went crazy and killed his neighbor and then went galloping back home, dismounted, and promptly killed his wife, two deaths in total, Virginia society spent the next six months in fear, and the legend of the murderer on horseback might linger for generations.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“Gifting a plant is gifting life, gifting happiness, gifting hope.”
― Mukesh Kwatra

“As she gracefully descended down portico, the white gloved hand of the lady of the estate met the white-glove worn by a Negro footman, as a vast expanse of hoop skirt filled the carriage doorway. It was a skirt of fine white lawn with ruffles embroidered with little pink and blue flowers complete with green stems. The white trash girl looked on in amazement, involuntarily wincing at the thought of the long hours plantation slave seamstresses had devoted to decorating a dress that might only be worn a half dozen times and survive as many launderings.”
― Gwen Bistrow

“Anyone who will eat his seeds today will be hungry tomorrow because he has nothing to plant and nothing to harvest later.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“The reluctance of southern planters to grow food stemmed from more than simply greed and economic self-interest. A major concern involved what to do with their slaves, who would have more time on their hands if not out tending cotton. Planting corn exacted much time during the planting and cultivation stages, but came nowhere near matching the long cotton-picking season, which typically lasted four and often five full months. As one Georgia newspaper put it, 'No grain crop in this climate needs cultivation more than four months of the year, the remainder of the working season is unemployed. Can the farmer afford to keep his negroes, horses, and other capital idle and 'eating their heads off' for the balance of the season?”
― Ted Steinberg, Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History

“Why ways to brew coffee, when tea may be healthier.”
― Monaristw

“It is part of nature's plan to bountifully reward farmers. And to wipe out starvation from their language and memory.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“Every state subject in Jammu and Kashmir should plant a tree on behalf of all the people. Plant a tree in the name of your little children and tell them that this tree is yours, it is your friend. You should water it a little every day. When this tree grows as your child grows, you will all start considering it as a member of your family. When you love it, talk to it, it will take care of you. That tree will give you fruit, give you shade. It will gather beautiful birds for you. It will make the environment around you beautiful. It will give you clean fresh air. It will increase your happiness. And you will be proud of this plant in your heart to your friends.”
― Sheikh Gulzar (jkmpic@gmail.com)

“It is not a hotel or guest house — it is actually a study, conservation, and cultivation centre for medicinal plants, with special focus on Ginkgo biloba, a very old “living fossil” tree known for its medicinal properties.”
― Ginkgo Gulzar---Ginkgo House, Pampore, Southeren kashmir