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Momma intended to teach Bailey and me to use the paths of life she and her generation and all the Negroes gone before had found, and found to be safe ones.
The Black woman in the south who raises sons, grandsons, and nephews had her heartstrings tied to a hanging noose.
“Annie, my policy is I’d rather stick my hand in a dog’s mouth than in a nigger’s”
Momma intended to teach Bailey and me to use the paths of life she and her generation and all the Negroes gone before had found, and found to be safe ones.
The Black woman in the south who raises sons, grandsons, and nephews had her heartstrings tied to a hanging noose.
“Annie, my policy is I’d rather stick my hand in a dog’s mouth than in a nigger’s”