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It is a very beautiful story, 'The Crow.' It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes.
My style is not specific to the antebellum South, but it's heavily inspired by the Jim Crow era.
Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.
Only brooms Know the devil Still exists, That the snow grows whiter After a crow has flown over it
Obama killed Osama. Yes, President Barack Obama gets to crow about the killing of Osama bin Laden.
It was stealing her breath, imbecile. Go get a towel." -Christophe, Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.
We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.
The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it.
So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.
We've come a long way from the days of Jim Crow, and yes, we elected a black president, but racism lives.
Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive.
Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy.
I grew up hearing my parents' stories about how they had to fight for their right to vote in the Jim Crow South.
Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south.
Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.
If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.
Crow walked toward her, arms outstretched like a man in a dream, which he was, in a way. Sometimes a dream is enough.
Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.
The crow does not hide its prey, but calls for others to share it; So wealth will be with those of a like disposition.
My mates who are younger than me are all slagging me for it - saying I am so much older and my crow's feet are showing.
The crows that are predatory are something you have to deal with. For me, they also become associated with cancer cells.
Jim Crow had unintended benefits. It forced blacks to build and rely on their own economic, educational and social systems.
Slum children eat crow's eggs for nutrition yet nobody respects this common bird. It's the exotic birds which fascinate all.
A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.
A fatherless boy raised in Jim Crow Texas, my dad was a tenacious autodidact, the first in his family to get a college degree.
The world is a nest of crows; some caw in praise; some caw in derision. But men should be above the reach of praise and blame.
I got a hug from Kathleen Marshall, Sheryl Crow, and Barry Levinson all in the same day - and that was something pretty special!
My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.
Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
The American crow is at an all-time low of 82 birds. Others hit by the West Nile, like the black-capped chickadee, have rebounded.
It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort of a Native American feel to it.
If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.
It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.
Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.
I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system.
Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.
To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.
Then, early, early, early in the morning-just as in countless Disney films-I heard a rooster crow. But guess what? They don't do it just once.
A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.
It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high.
It's a matter of how the bullpen looks as to whether Bell goes in there or Crow goes in there. Bell won't be ready for a start for another 10 days.
I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.
Oh, you crows! Feast away! What a spread! Soup straight from the eye sockets! And thick red sake! But don't have too much Or you'll surely get drunk.
We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.
Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.
I love a lot of the '70s musicians, like Bonnie Raitt. And I love Sheryl Crow. But probably my favorite musician is a woman by the name of Schuyler Fisk.
My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door.