#amps

We have to convince people that the handouts – just taking a few little handouts, where you have a subsistent living, where you never grow, just get a little check and a few food stamps, it will keep you on the plantation for the rest of your life, that’s not a life. That’s not living. It is not good enough. It is not acceptable. We have to educate our people that that is no longer good. You have to get off the plantation, off the government plantation, ↗

— Elbert Guillory

#government #education

IS BARACK OBAMA THE MESSIAH? "... A LIGHT WILL SHINE THROUGH THAT WINDOW, A BEAM OF LIGHT WILL COME DOWN UPON YOU, YOU WILL EXPERIENCE AN EPIPHANY ... AND YOU WILL SUDDENLY REALIZE THAT YOU MUST GO TO THE POLLS AND VOTE FOR OBAMA" - BARACK OBAMA LEBANON, NEW HAMPSHIRE. JANUARY 7, 2008 ↗

— Barack Obama

#experience

The poor spend all their free time drinking. It helps cope with the terrible drudgery of obtaining food stamps. An ethic of alcoholism prevails among the upper class too, but they use leisure to deal with it. ↗

— Bauvard

#drinking #food-stamps #funny #humor #leisure

He reads every book in his home but it is not enough. The country boy craves stories. He devours every poem and fable in his school and library. Still he hungers. For stories. ↗

— Jennifer Lanthier

#freedom-of-speech #journalism #prison #stamps #writing

The bark on the tree was just a little softer. ↗

— Louis Sachar

#character #friendship #punishment #friendship

Don't just expect the scouts to find you. Go to camps, clinics and make sure you are seen. ↗

— Paul Quantrill

#clinics #expect #find #go #just

Love triangles are a bitch," Angelica said. "So are you," Caitlin murmured. The vampire laughed. "I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that. ↗

— Thomas Galvin

#vamps #love

I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#life #true-blood #vamps #death

People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#born #camps #getting #people #refugee

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre. ↗

— Aaron Tveit

#camps #choose #direction #going #grow