More - Rose Johnson Quotes

When I was a girl, all we knew was this neighborhood, ... The beaches were ?whites only.? So Turkey Creek is where we went to fish, pick blackberries, recreate. Oftentimes you could see old people walking down to Turkey Creek with their cane poles in their hands. Churches had no pools inside for baptisms then?we all walked down to the creek and waited until the crowd got there.

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The more often I came home, the more trees were gone. It was like my childhood was being eviscerated. There was another OfficeMax or Wal-Mart. ?This is not my home,? I said. I felt in my heart the loss of Turkey Creek. But I think a more dangerous issue is the displacement of our culture.

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 Childhood

I had to explain what wetlands are, ... We call them swamps. But wetlands are natural sponges, and we need them to absorb water, to filter pollutants.

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When Mrs. Skinner saw this, she just cried and cried, ... Her baby is over there under that apartment.

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 Apartment

Someone kept me from drowning, when I fell into the water.

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Class and race play a big part in it and it's bad communication on the part of the bureaucracy also.

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 Bureaucracy

One hundred percent of that goes right back out. We're all volunteers.

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We will try to help someone who's trying to help themselves.

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They should be able to stand on their own after that.

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How can those people rest in peace with an apartment building over them? What is wrong with this city? Somebody?s got to stop these fools.

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 Peace