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I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations. ↗


— Shakira


#any #brooklyn #clothes #clothing #company

Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it." Francie wished adults would stop telling her that. Already the load of thanks in the future was weighing her down. She figured she'd have to spend the best years of her womanhood hunting up people to tell them that they were right and to thank them. ↗


— Betty Smith


#betty-smith #humor #thanks #humor

It avails not, time nor place--distance avails not, I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence, Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt, Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a crowd, Just as you are refresh'd by the gladness of the river and the bright flow, I was refresh'd, Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift current, I stood yet was hurried, Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships and the thick-stemm'd pipes of steamboats, I look'd. ↗


— Walt Whitman


#men

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything. ↗


— Neil Diamond


#anything #brooklyn #change #easiest #experience

My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town. ↗


— Herbie Mann


#band #both #brooklyn #california #daughters

What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere. ↗


— Arthur Schwartz


#anywhere #brooklyn #i #i love #joints

He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast. ↗


— Frank McCourt


#belfast #brooklyn #came #drank #funeral

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn. ↗


— Frank McCourt


#before #brooklyn #childhood #here #i

By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job. ↗


— Robert Quine


#bookstore #brooklyn #drank #got #i

Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends. ↗


— Sydney Schanberg


#born #brooklyn #even #friends #goodbye






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