“I just plain decided one day I wasn’t going to do anything119 or say anything unless I meant it. Not ‘Please, sir.’ Nor ‘Thank you, ma’am.’ Nothing. Unless I meant it. You have to be poor and black to know how many times you can get knocked in the head for trying to do something as simple as that.”
Interestingly, Elvis took the opposite course. "Yessir." Always.
