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  • When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing. -- Wyclef Jean
  • There's a catharsis in cutting down trees. But there's absolutely none of that in picking cotton. It's maddening! It's fiddly, and it pricks your fingers, and it's something that's a very hard skill if you have no alacrity for it. -- Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Look at Michelle Obama. Everyone keeps making a big deal about her arms being exposed, but don't get it twisted: her arms are out for a reason. Black women have had those arms forever - lifting, picking cotton, toting and carrying babies. -- LaTanya Richardson
  • I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder. -- Thomas Starr King
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