#town

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #december #demonstrations

I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#elementary school #i #learned #lot #motown

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#castle #enough #food #get #kin

I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years. ↗

— Donald T. Regan

#anything #congress #four #good #had

Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world. ↗

— Donna Rice

#getting #glamour #i #job #marrying

This isn't the best town for what we're doing. Too many other things to pull the crowds away. ↗

— Kenneth Rexroth

#best #crowds #doing #many #other

It's always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special. ↗

— Buddy Rice

#different #hometown #little #makes #more

There's a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town. ↗

— Michael Richards

#involved #labor #lot #new #new town

You can learn a lot when you play in a little town in Holland or Western Australia, and you learn different things than you would learn playing a big city. ↗

— Jonathan Richman

#big #big city #city #different #different things

I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I. ↗

— Johnny Rivers

#downtown #drummer #eddie #eight #four