Troy Burks:  

CLASS OF 2005
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Earlham CollegeClass of 2005
Richmond, IN

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Troy is from Atlanta, Georgia. Troy's schools include Earlham College. Troy later attended Earlham College (Psychology, Business Management) . Troy works(ed) at Earlham College, Earlham College, Earlham College. Music Troy likes includes Shakira. One of Troy's favorite quotes is:" “He taught, and modern physiology and psychology confirm, that hate and jealousy and other evil passions destroy a man's physical vigor and efficiency. What a man continually thinks about determines his actions in times of opportunity and stress. A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the man's power to govern or his forced servility to yield.” “Integrity has no need of rules.” Cultural Exchange In the Quarter of the Negroes Where the doors are doors of paper Dust of dingy atoms Blows a scratchy sound. Amorphous jack-o'-Lanterns caper And the wind won't wait for midnight For fun to blow doors down. By the river and the railroad With fluid far-off goind Boundaries bind unbinding A whirl of whisteles blowing. No trains or steamboats going-- Yet Leontyne's unpacking. In the Quarter of the Negroes Where the doorknob lets in Lieder More than German ever bore, Her yesterday past grandpa-- ...Expand for more
Not of her own doing-- In a pot of collard greens Is gently stewing. Pushcarts fold and unfold In a supermarket sea. And we better find out, mama, Where is the colored laundromat Since we move dup to Mount Vernon. In the pot begind the paper doors on the old iron stove what's cooking? What's smelling, Leontyne? Lieder, lovely Lieder And a leaf of collard green. Lovely Lieder, Leontyne. You know, right at Christmas They asked me if my blackness, Would it rub off? I said, Ask your mama. Dreams and nightmares! Nightmares, dreams, oh! Dreaming that the Negroes Of the South have taken over-- Voted all the Dixiecrats Right out of power-- Comes the COLORED HOUR: Martin Luther King is Governor of Georgia, Dr. Rufus Clement his Chief Adviser, A. Philip Randolph the High Grand Worthy. In white pillared mansions Sitting on their wide verandas, Wealthy Negroes have white servants, White sharecroppers work the black plantations, And colored children have white mammies: Mammy Faubus Mammy Eastland Mammy Wallace Dear, dear darling old white mammies-- Sometimes even buried with our family. Dear old Mammy Faubus! Culture, they say, is a two-way street: Hand me my mint julep, mammny. Hurry up! Make haste! Langston Hughes ". More about Troy:"I don't have time to worry so don't bring drama.".
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