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Doin' the Charleston: Black Roots of American Popular Music & the Jenkins Orphanage Legacy QUOTES

Doin' the Charleston: Black Roots of American Popular Music & the Jenkins Orphanage Legacy QUOTES

1 " The main difference between a lawyer and a prostitute is that a prostitute won't screw you after you're dead. "

― Mark R. Jones , Doin' the Charleston: Black Roots of American Popular Music & the Jenkins Orphanage Legacy

2 " During the settling of the American colonies, it was said that the Spaniards would first build a church, the Dutch would first build a fort and the English a tavern. Welcome to Charleston, an English colony founded in 1670. "

― Mark R. Jones , Doin' the Charleston: Black Roots of American Popular Music & the Jenkins Orphanage Legacy

3 " the city is full of three types of people, the first being soldiers, the other classes are politicians and prostitutes, both very numerous, and about equal in honesty and morality. "

― Mark R. Jones , Doin' the Charleston: Black Roots of American Popular Music & the Jenkins Orphanage Legacy

4 " Charleston is not the center of the universe, but it should be. That is the persistent perception of many locals. "

― Mark R. Jones , Doin' the Charleston: Black Roots of American Popular Music & the Jenkins Orphanage Legacy

5 " In Charleston, temperance is a four letter word. "

― Mark R. Jones , Doin' the Charleston: Black Roots of American Popular Music & the Jenkins Orphanage Legacy