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Quotes About Okies

Maybe, God forbid, the place was what it appeared to be—a melange of Okies and thieves and bewildered jíbaros.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Oh these dumb dumb dumb Okies, they'll never change, how com-pletely and how unbelievably dumb, the moment it comes time to act, this paralysis, scared, hysterical, nothing frightens em more than what they WANT- it's MY FATHER MY FATER MY FATHER all over again!
~ Jack Kerouac
I thought that if we had a national character and a national genius, these people, who were beginning to be called Okies, were it.
~ John Steinbeck