Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
“Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.”
— B. B. King · Poetry
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
“Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.”
— B. B. King · Poetry
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“Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.”
“I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, and I was trying to open a bone. Can you imagine that? A bone! I was trying to get the marrow out of a bone, and I took the ax, and I went to chop it, and something slipped, and the ax went right down there and damn near cut it off.”
“When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!”
“If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.”
“Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.”
“Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.”
“it's amazing how music can do that: make life feel so much more real.”
“I heard a thousand blended notes”
“A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.”
“Staring Girl”
“Everyone mourns the first blossom.”
“I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.”