States Of The United States

"A few things for themselves, Florida, venereal soil, Disclose to the lover."

"Man, you must love this fucking guy, 'cause he's the biggest pussy I ever met, the dude who lives his life according to everyone else's standards. "I have to go down to Florida and get married because that what's expected of me." And the fucking insane part is, he ain't even crazy about the chick he's marrying or Florida, never mind the fact that he's got a perfectly good chick right here in Jersey who he's nuts about and even Anne-fucking-Frank can see that she's nuts about him — God knows why. And she likes you for who you are, man. She ain't trying to stuff you into a box you'll never fit into, not to mention that she's carrying your hideous fucking C.H.U.D. of a kid. Jesus, if you had any sense whatsoever, you'd fucking stop trying to bray it up with the rest of the sheep and live your life the way it makes sense to you, you fucking ass."

"There was a moist, fertile, decaying sort of odor in the air. Florida was the sort of place that always seemed to be threatening to slip out of time and go back to the Paleozoic where it belonged. The light was a tawny gold filtered through a fragmented wall of green."

"California, Florida, whatever. Either way, your pale ass is getting a tan."

"Virginia: Oh god no. He's a birthmark on his head that looks like a big old... Jimmy: Florida. Shaped like Florida... Florida with balls."

"Where the hell's Fiji? Near Florida?"

"Tourists and settlers very often regret not to find their favorite flowers of the North, missing especially the , the , the , the perennial , the , and the . As a matter of fact the gardens of Florida are far excelling those of the North in beauty, variety, and splendor. The many evergreen trees and shrubs, the s and bamboos, the s, and s, the s and imbue every cottage and villa garden with a decidedly tropical appearance. In place of the lilac we have the , one of the most beautiful and shapely shade trees in existence."

"Legendary was Xanadu where Kubla Khan decreed his stately pleasure dome. Today, almost as legendary is Florida's Xanadu, world's largest private pleasure ground. Here, on the deserts of the Gulf Coast, a private mountain was commissioned and successfully built. One hundred thousand trees, twenty thousand tons of marble are the ingredients of Xanadu's mountain."

"North Carolina, come on and raise up! Take your shirt off; twist it 'round your head. Spin it like a helicopter!"

"North Carolina is a valley of humility between two mountains of conceit."

"Maybe teen marriage is all the rage in Hicksville, North Carolina, but I swear if you marry this boy I'm gonna have annulment papers drawn up so fast..."

"Carolina! Carolina! Heaven's blessings attend her! While we live, we will cherish, protect and defend her; Tho' the scorner may sneer at, and witlings defame her, Still our hearts swell with gladness whenever we name her. Hurrah! Hurrah! The Old North State Forever Hurrah! Hurrah! The good Old North State!"

"One of the things I did in North Carolina in the seventies was to battle with the Klan because the Ku Klux Klan really controlled this state. I was telling some people during dinner that I can remember when there were big billboards of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan welcoming visitors to the various cities and towns of North Carolina. And members of the Klan appeared publicly in their garb."

"While North Carolina has the honor of first authorizing its delegates to concur with other Colonies in declaring independence, it was quickly followed by South Carolina and Georgia, which also gave general instructions broad enough to include such action."

"Esse quam videri"

"Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No, I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years."

"The colonisation of New England and the eastern coastline of America had been mainly the work of powerful companies, aided by the English Crown or by feudal proprietors with chartered rights. But here in the new lands of the West any man with an axe and a rifle could carve for himself a rude frontier home. By 1790 there were thirty-five thousand settlers in the Tennessee country, and double that number in Kentucky. By 1800 there were a million Americans west of the mountain ranges of the Alleghenies. From these new lands a strong, self-reliant Western breed took its place in American life. Modem American democracy was bom and cradled in the valley of the Mississippi. The foresight of the first independent Congress of the United States had proclaimed for all time the principle that when new territories gained a certain population they should be admitted to statehood upon an equality with the existing partners of the Union. It is a proof of the quality and power of the Westerners that eleven of the eighteen Presidents of the United States between 1828 and 1901 were either bom or passed the greater part of their lives in the valley of the Mississippi."

"Westward lay the march of American Empire. Within thirty years of the establishment of the Union nine new states had been formed in the Mississippi valley, and two in the borders of New England. As early as 1769 men like Daniel Boone had pushed their way into the Kentucky country, skirmishing with the Indians. But the main movement over the mountains began during the War of Independence. The migration of the eighteenth century took two directions: the advance westward towards the Ohio, with its settlement of Kentucky and Tennessee, and the occupation of the north-west forest regions, the fur-traders’ domain, beyond Lake Erie."

"We got up at four in the morning, that first day in the east. On the evening before we had climbed off a freight train at the edge of town, and with the true instinct of Kentucky boys had found our way across town and to the race track and the stables at once. Then we knew we were all right."

"When I was a kid back in Kentucky, we went to this church where my uncle preached. It was kind of a weird Baptist, full-on kind of place. People kept running up to the pulpit and grabbing his ankles and being saved. Lots of crying. Even then, at six or seven, I questioned how pure the emotion could be if it were on such display."

"It’s so strange coming to Kentucky from California. Like I'm visiting another country. Your secret histories. Social taboos. Folk garb."

"The song birds are the sweetest In Kentucky; The thoroughbreds are fleetest In Kentucky; Mountains tower proudest, Thunder peals the loudest, The landscape is the grandest— And politics—the damnedest In Kentucky."

"The day goes by like a shadow o’er the heart, With sorrow where all was delight; The time has come when the darkies have to part: Then my old Kentucky home, good night!"

"The head must bow, and the back will have to bend, Wherever the darkey may go; A few more days, and the trouble all will end, In the field where the sugar-canes grow. A few more days for to tote the weary load,— No matter, 't will never be light; A few more days till we totter on the road:— Then my old Kentucky home, good-night!"

"I'm gonna fuck me, a girl from Kentucky. Right before I cum, I'm a make her sucky-sucky."

"I met Colonel Sanders' wife in the State of Kentucky; said I brought some chicken if you'd just fuck me. I came in her mouth, it was a crisis. I gave her my secret blend of herbs and spices."

"It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year."

"[A]nd plenty honey's involved, the sunny Sundays and palm trees, Cali, every day it's just another party, from the valleys all the way to them 8 Mile alleys."

"This California love, this California bud."

"[A] state that's untouchable, like Elliot Ness... It's all good, from Diego to the Bay."

"I wish they all could be California I wish they all could be California I wish they all could be California girls."

"The Senator says the territory of California is three times greater than the average extent of the new States of the Union. Well, Sir, suppose it is. We all know that it has more than three times as many mountains, inaccessible and rocky hills, and sandy wastes, as are possessed by any State of the Union. But how much is there of useful land? how much that may be made to contribute to the support of man and of society? These ought to be the questions. Well, with respect to that, I am sure that everybody has become satisfied that, although California may have a very great sea-board, and a large city or two, yet that the agricultural products of the whole surface now are not, and never will be, equal to one half part of those of the State of Illinois; no, nor yet a fourth, or perhaps a tenth part."

"No California gentleman or lady ever abuses or oppresses a Chinaman, under any circumstances, an explanation that seems to be much needed in the east. Only the scum of the population do it; they and their children. They, and, naturally and consistently, the policemen and politicians, likewise, for these are the dust-licking pimps and slaves of the scum, there as well as elsewhere in America."

"California love! California, knows how to party. California, knows how to party. In the city, of L-A. In the city of good old Watts. In the city, the city of Compton. We keep it rocking! We keep it rocking!"

"If you see California, you will know it's been waiting for you."

"What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there."

"[the college is] an extraordinary institution that encourages young creatives to find their artistic voices and thrive in a variety of industries and careers."

"“So where are the evil tourists from,” Toby asked. “California?” “Another dimensional reality.” “That's what I said.”"

"From Oakland to Sac-Town, the Bay Area and back down, Cali is where they put their mack down. Give me love!"

"Only in Cali, where we riot, not rally, to live and die."

"Where cowards and the strong ball."

"Out on bail, fresh out of jail. California dreaming!"

"California, Florida, whatever. Either way, your pale ass is getting a tan."

"There are so many different challenges California has; it's the greatest state in the greatest country in the world. Hasta la vista, baby!"

"Unfortunately, people in California would vote for a bowl of shit if it had “D” next to it."

"I'll shimmy a little shimmy I'll fly a little fly. Yeah, we're out there having fun in the warm California sun!"

"California here we come; right back where we started from. California! Here we come!"

"I am C-A. Sac-Town, Seaside, L.A.!"

"It is called a genocide. That's what it was... No other way to describe it and that's the way it needs to be described in the history books. And so I'm here to say the following: I'm sorry on behalf of the state of California... It's humbling for me, having believed I was educated, to have been so ignorant of our past, to have been so unaware of how ashamed I should be, as a Californian, 5th generation... I'm sorry that we've had generations of your kids and grandkids, your ancestors, that have had to suffer through indignities, lack of capacity, empathy and understanding..."

"Whatever interesting things America have happened, they've happened first in California."