“If your knees ain't dirty...you ain't doin' it right!”

“I don't care one speck. It ain't right, somehow it ain't right to do 'em that way. Hasn't anybody got any business talkin' like that- it just makes me sick.”

“sugar, if you ain't on speaking terms with The Lord, what right you got to ask Him to help you out?”

“The future ain't what it used to be - and what's more, it never was.”

“Jem, I ain't ever heard of a nigger snowman," I said.”

“I ain't sayin it ain't all right to study the Bible. You got to study the Bible to know the rules of life. But I notice a lotta folks doin more lookin at the Bible than doin what it says.”

“There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.”