"WHO'S
TALKING"
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Mormino
Thrasher
"LOOK WHO'S TALKING" (...Out of context quotes)
Gary Mormino,
University of South Florida professor, speaking at a colloquium on American and Florida Studies March 19 in the Beth Moor Lounge:
"The single most exciting moment in Florida - when a European met the native Floridian....
"Ibor City would have been a great setting for a Michener novel...
"In 1900 what other site besides the cigar factories could you find where black men and white women were working together?"
"They were Afro-Cubans - highly educated 'strippers.' They stripped the cigar leaves..."
"Dade County is essentially a Cuban city today."
Rep. John Thrasher,
R-Orange Park, speaker-designate of the Florida House of Representatives, speaking at FSU's graduation May 2:
"First, follow the Golden Rule...Allow nothing in your life that is not good, helpful and useful.
"Second, give back a portion of what you've been given....
"Third, love your parents...
"Fourth, stand up for what is right
"Fifth, Pray. ... Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be a stronger person.. I do not presume to tell you who to pray to, what to pray or how to pray ... But do pray.... Pray for yourselves. Pray for others But do pray."