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A mood come alive.
The origins of “it’s a mood”
They, the men, were saving with the mind what they lost with the eye.
The worst thing Ah ever knowed her to do was taking a few years offa her age and dat ain’t never harmed nobody. Y’all makes me tired. De way you talkin’ you’d think de folks in dis town didn’t do nothin’ in de bed ’cept praise de Lawd.
I love Pheoby
So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have to, but he don’t tote it. He hand it to his womenfolks. De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see.
Ah ain’t gittin’ ole, honey. Ah’m done ole.
Every tear you drop squeezes a cup uh blood outa mah heart.
Put me down easy, Janie, Ah’m a cracked plate.”
Got a house bought and paid for and sixty acres uh land right on de big road and. . . . Lawd have mussy! Dat’s de very prong all us black women gits hung on. Dis love!
“He never made his own head. You talk so silly.” “Ah don’t keer who made it, Ah don’t like de job.
Us colored folks is too envious of one ’nother. Dat’s how come us don’t git no further than us do. Us talks about de white man keepin’ us down! Shucks! He don’t have tuh. Us keeps our own selves down.”
You can’t git her wid no fish sandwich.”
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered.
“Stop mixin’ up mah doings wid mah looks, Jody.
When you pull down yo’ britches, you look lak de change uh life.”
De thought uh mah youngness don’t satisfy me lak yo’ presence do.”
“Things lak dat got uh whole lot tuh do wid convenience, but it ain’t got nothin’ tuh do wid love.”
See yuh later, tell you straighter.”
Have de nerve tuh say whut you mean.”
Nobody else on earth kin hold uh candle tuh you, baby. You got de keys to de kingdom.”
going straight by walking crooked.
“Ah jus lak uh chicken. Chicken drink water, but he don’t pee-pee.”
People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor.
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
“Swim, man. Dat’s all.”
“Well, uh, Good bye, Motor Boat.
“You got tuh tell me so Ah kin feel widja. Lemme bear de pain ’long widja, baby.
God made it so you spent yo’ ole age first wid somebody else, and saved up yo’ young girl days to spend wid me.”
