“You-all means a race or section, Family, party, tribe, or clan; You-all means the whole connection Of the individual man. Anonymous
“De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see. Ah been prayin’ fuh it tuh be different wid you.Zora Neale Hurston
“Tote dat barge! Lif’ dat bale! Git a little drunk, An’ you land in jail. Ah gits weary An’ sick of tryin’ Ah’m tired of livin’ An’ skeered of dyin’, But Ol’ Man River, He jes’ keeps rollin’ along. Oscar Hammerstein (II)