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She say,Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for himtoshow. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

—Walker, Alice Malsenior

Don't tell my mother I'm living in sin, Don't let the old folks know.

—Herbert, SirA(lan) P(atrick)

They walked and eat, good folks: What then? Why then they walked and eat again: They soundly slept the night away: They did just nothing all the day.

—Prior, Matthew

Folks don't like to have somebodyaround knowin'more than they do. It aggravates 'em.

—Lee, (Nelle) Harper

Well, maybe like Casy says, a fellowain't got a soul of his own, but on'ya piece of a big oneöan thenö† Then it don'matter. Then I'll be all aroun' in the dark. I'll be everywhereöwherever you look.Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.Wherever they's a cop beatin'up aguy,I'll bethere.If Casyknowed, why,I'll be inthewayguysyell whenthey'remad an'öI'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an'they know supper's ready. An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they buildöwhy, I'll be there. See?

—Steinbeck,John Ernest

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

—Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans

And all that I could thinkof, in the darkness and the cold, Was just that I was leaving home and my folks were growing old.

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm nevergoing tobe hungryagain.No, noranyof my folks.If I have to steal or killöas God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.

—Mitchell, Margaret

That's all folks!

—Freleng, Friz born Isadore Freleng

Come, gie's a sang, Montgomery cry'd, And lay your disputes a'aside; What signifies't for folks to chide For what's been done before them? Let Whig and Torya'agree, Whig and Tory,Whig and Tory, Whig and Tory a'agree To drop their whigmigmorum; Let Whig and Torya'agree To spend this night wi'mirth and glee, And cheerfu'sing, alang wi'me, The Reel o' Tullochgorum.

—Skinner,John

When folks git ole en strucken wid de palsy, dey mus' speck ter be laff'd at.

—Harris,Joel Chandler

Way down upon the Swanee River, Far, far away, There's where my heart is turning ever; There's where the old folks stay.

—Foster, Stephen Collins