Writer Quotes and aphorisms about cotton W. E. B. Du Bois ,, The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, ... Harriet Ann Jacobs Robert E. Howard George Monbiot Jeremy Lloyd Joseph Mitchell Timothy Thomas Fortune Alex Shoumatoff ,, The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen... Ryan Murphy Karin Slaughter