#folk

It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job. ↗

— Herman Cain

#change #folks #get #hope and change #job

I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity. ↗

— Julian Castro

#back #brains #classmates #difference #dreams

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#culture #folk #forth #popular #popular culture

I look forward to standing shoulder to shoulder with Speaker Boehner, Leader Cantor, Whip McCarthy and the entire republican conference as we repeal Obamacare, fight rampant job killing regulations, cut spending and help put folks back to work. ↗

— Fred Upton

#conference #cut #entire #fight #folks

We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance to play in a beer joint, and that's how it started. ↗

— Charlie Daniels

#beer #chance #folks #garage #got

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#before #begun #did #enough #folk

Hip-hop is the last true folk art. ↗

— Mos Def

#folk #hip-hop #last #true

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#between #both #connections #folk #i

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#anthropology #course #folklore #forms #genres

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#above #also #analysis #based #collect