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"I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times."
"'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not."
"First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids."
"He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch."
"When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends."
"There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962."
"There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up."
"It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured, it has humor and, in some ways, it's a performance."
"I did admire the comments and the music of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. And that didn't fly too well in the Deep South. It was not quite redneck enough."
"Music saved my life a few times because I could play the stuff rednecks loved. They thought I was great and they wondered why I didn't do that all the time."
"Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways."
"It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record."
"Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether."
"Cause I'm a redneck woman."
"Let me get a big 'hell yeah' from the redneck girls like me, hell yeah."
"Thomas Sowell is America's foremost public intellectual and for good reason. His work covers almost every subject imaginable- race, economics, Marxism, ethnic groups, immigration patterns, just to name a few. He is persuasive and provocative and always scintillating. I've read all his books and never been even faintly disappointed. Black Rednecks & White Liberals is no exception."
"In Georgia, rednecks are just wolves in wolf clothing. In Detroit, you don't know who's a redneck until you go home and meet their parents."
"I'd breed a little liberal army in the wood, just like these redneck lunatics I see at the local bar with their tribe of mutant inbred piglets."
