The Tales of Uncle Remus Quotes

“Now, before I go any further I can hear you thinking that Brer Wolf been killed off twice. What that got to do with anything? Am I the tale? Is the tale me? Or is the tale the tale? Well, you can figure that out.”
― Julius Lester, The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

“Like I said at the beginning, if there was one thing the animals agreed on, it was partying. If the sun came up on time, they had a party! If the rain was wet, they partied! If the grass was green, they partied!”
― Julius Lester, The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

“I wonder what's in that sack Brer Fox got slung over his shoulder?" Brer Rabbit wondered. He wondered and he wondered, and the more he wondered, the more he didn't know. He knew this much: Brer Fox had absolutely no business walking up the road singing and carrying something which nobody but him knew what it was.”
― Julius Lester, The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

“When Brer Rabbit saw Mr. Man with the wagon full of money he looked around and noticed that he didn't have a wagon full of money. There was something wrong with that. If there wasn't, he'd have the money and Mr. Man wouldn't have any.”
― Julius Lester, The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

“Back in them times people looked alike to the animals, so they called all of them Mr. Man.”
― Julius Lester, The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

“Brer Bear said he was going to fish for mud-cats. Brer Wolf said he was going to fish for horneyheads. Brer Fox wanted to catch some perch for the ladies. Brer Turtle said he'd fish for minnows, and Brer Rabbit looked at Brer Turtle and said he was going to fish for suckers.”
― Julius Lester, The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

“How you today, Gran'sir' Gray Fox?" Brer Rabbit greeted him.

"Not doing too well," Gran'sir' Gray Fox said. "I got the old age in my teeths.”
― Julius Lester, The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

“He tied Brer Rabbit to a tree alongside the road and went to get a stick. He was going to beat the Devil out of Brer Rabbit and whup some Jesus in.”
― Julius Lester, The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

“Brer Rabbit went into training. He bought a red jogging suit, a green sweatband, and some yellow Adidas sneakers, and he jogged ten miles every day. Then he'd come home and do a whole mess of push-ups, sit-ups, and skip rope to his records. Some folks wondered if he was training for a race or "Soul Train.”
― Julius Lester, The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

“Brer Rabbit allowed as to how he was too sick, and Brer Fox said he couldn't be too sick to go partying. (God knows, that's the truth! I ain't never been too sick to party. Even when I'm dead, I'll get up out of the grave to party. And when I get sick, the blues are the best doctor God put on earth. The blues can cure athlete's foot, hangnail, and the heartbreak of psoriasis.)”
― Julius Lester, The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

“When the shadows were at their shortest, Brer Rabbit went over to Brer Fox's. He'd scarcely set one foot on the porch when he heard groaning from inside. He opened the door and saw Brer Fox sitting in his rocking chair, a blanket over his shoulder, looking like Death eating soda crackers in the graveyard.”
― Julius Lester, The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

“When the animals started living here on Earth, something seemed to happen to them. Where before they had gotten along with each other, now they started having little arguments and disagreements. It was only a matter of time before they weren't much different from people.”
― Julius Lester, The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

“Most folks don't know it, but the animals didn't always live on earth. Way back before "In the beginning" and "Once upon a time," they lived next door to the Moon. They'd probably still be there if Brer Rabbit and Sister Moon hadn't started squabbling with one another like they were married.”
― Julius Lester, The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit