Shannon Briggs Quotes & Sayings

It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music. — Tony Snow

Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi? — Charles Rangel

Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored and pressured into existence not by Lincoln but by the great emancipators nobody knows, the abolitionists and congressional leaders who created the climate and generated the pressure that goaded, prodded, drove, forced Lincoln into glory by associating him with a policy that he adamantly opposed for at least fifty-four of his fifty-six years of his life. — Lerone Bennett Jr.

I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound. — Anne Stevenson

We don't get typhoons in December. They normally end by September. A typhoon happening in October is considered a late event. — Benigno Aquino III