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...remembered her mammy's proud boast, "Ain't nothin' but black niggers here on massa's place." And she tried not to think about "sassoborro," the name her ebony-black father--his mouth curled in scorn used to call those with mulatto skin. She was grateful that they weren't there to see--and share--her shame. But she knew that...all anyone had to do was compare her color and the baby's to know what had happened--and with whom.... But before she fell asleep, Kizzy decided...she would never regard him as other than the grandson...
...have always wondered if a Southerner put up that famous sign over the Western bar: "I ain't what I oughta be; I ain't what I'm gonna be; but I ain't what...
...South has changed before -and remained the same, through slavery and secession, independence and defeat, emancipation, reconstruction and integration. The best exposition of its present condition came from one of its major prophets, Martin Luther King, who liked to quote a favorite Baptist preacher: "We ain't what we want to be. We ain't what we gonna be. But, thank God, we ain't what...
Some's 'lected and some ain...
...Frixes have planted 25 acres with 1,000 peach trees. LG and Judy pick most of the fruit themselves. "We ain't made but one real crop, though," says Frix. "Cold weather killed them." Another 20 acres have been planted to snap beans, butter beans, cucumbers and squash, but there have been problems with those crops too. "Like a month ago I planted two acres of snap beans," he says. "They came up good. Then I go over there and found just one bean standing up. Deer was eatin' them up." The remaining 53 acres are wooded...