They [black and white musicians] jived between each other. All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.


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Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY
He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat.
WENDELL BERRY
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the lan...
WENDELL BERRY
Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.
MARY BERRY
When I was paralysed by polio at 13, I went into an isolation hospital and couldn't sit up, so I...
MARY BERRY
No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer...
DANIELLE BERRY
It's an opportunity for visitors themselves to take part in the effort to reduce accidents.
BRIAN BERRY
The case was shoddily conceived. And he lost it.
BRIAN BERRY
We had two goals going into tonight's game. We wanted to win the game and get nobody hurt. We accomp...
BRIAN BERRY
It's like 'Twilight Zone.' You're seeing the same pattern.
BRIAN BERRY
At first, I think people thought I was a bum or a damn nut, so they were leery of me. People are nic...
BOB BERRY
I was real satisfied with how we did going against the big schools. Most of our guys are newer at tr...
BOB BERRY
The cruise (phase) has been very successful.
BOB BERRY
For a while, there was nobody cutting ships. You couldn't do it because of all the environmental reg...
BOB BERRY
He was mighty tickled and was a good kid. But I had to give him a lecture on keeping a phone number ...
BOB BERRY
The team is trained and confident. The spacecraft systems are healthy and performing as expected, an...
BOB BERRY
I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days].
HALLE BERRY
My husband is not in the slightest bit domesticated, but as the years go, by he's getting better...
MARY BERRY
I never fry a doughnut! If you want a doughnut, go and buy one once in a blue moon. It's about e...
MARY BERRY
I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.
HALLE BERRY
At my dinner parties, I like to serve cheese after the main course because you still have red wine i...
MARY BERRY
I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy a...
HALLE BERRY
My best holidays were in Devon and Cornwall when the children were growing up. We always used to sta...
MARY BERRY
This has ripped the family. The parents they're devastated.
CATHY BERRY
This has ripped the family. The parents – they're devastated.
CATHY BERRY
I thought the girls played well, and we got off to a great start. We have a lot of returning players...
CATHY BERRY
I thought Emily played fantastic, and she really held her own. She definitely stepped it up, when sh...
CATHY BERRY
You're life still goes one whether you want it to or not, you still have daily bills that come in.
CATHY BERRY
Whose noble praise Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing.
DOROTHY BERRY
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
JOHN BERRY
In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
WENDELL BERRY
Beauty? Let me tell you something - being thought of as 'a beautiful woman' has spared me nothing in...
HALLE BERRY
“Eating is an agricultural act.”
WENDELL BERRY
Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps...
WENDELL BERRY
The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays
WENDELL BERRY
When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what m...
WENDELL BERRY
The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad ...
WENDELL BERRY
I walked over to two firemen kneeling on the front porch, and I heard this awful noise. And it was S...
JANELLE BERRY
I can't pass a plant stall without feeling I must have one. But my greatest extravagance, I supp...
MARY BERRY
All-in-one dishes are among my favourites. I'm very much in favour of using the oven as much as ...
MARY BERRY
I won't cook in deep fat. Years ago, I met a fireman who said most kitchen fires were caused by ...
MARY BERRY