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  • All they are fit for is education for cottonpicking and dish-washing.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings: Every year, if you're lucky, one set or even one song will make the heat, the dust, the sore feet, the shuttle-bus lines - the whole cottonpicking weekend - worthwhile.

    Houston Press | Complete Issue 2008

  • Oh, I'm sure you're aware that I've an electrochemical network of thirteen billion nerve cells, and maybe you realize that in some of my nooks and crannies-you're fortunate to be smooth and holistic-these cell bodies are so densely packed that a hundred million fit into a cubic inch, every cottonpicking one of them humming, pulsing and flashing, and none of them exactly alike; yes, you may know that but you can never really know how hard it is to be electrochemical, to be, and I'm not boasting, the most intricate and effective thing in Nature ...

    Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

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