“anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!”

“If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.”

“Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.”

“But as de old folks always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.”

“I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.”

“You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.”

“She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.”