Dorothy Boyer, my mother sowed seeds into my life that I cherish still today. She would always say, "If you give respect you can DEMAND respect!"-submitted by C. Lindsay
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"You don't have to tell anybody you're going climb a tree. When they look up and see you in it, they know you done climbed it!"
- Ben Mobley
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He's so confused he doesn't know whether to check his a_ _ or scratch his watch!

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Be careful son! You may not be on THIN ICE, but you ARE on ice...

“That lady there is as fine as a frog hair split three ways.”
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“A dog who brings a bone, will carry a bone."  (A person comes to you with gossip will gossip about you to someone else.)
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"You don't leave a dog to watch the meat house!"

WARNING!! Don't go to a dentist who wears dentures!"

- Submitted by R L Duplessis, Sr

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That child is so tall if he fell down he'd be halfway home.
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“Your eyes are bigger than your stomach”...
-Submitted by Brother Mayo
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"You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man."

Frederick Douglass 
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"Hurry up! Ya'll burning daylight!" -submitted by Reco

Pastor Aaron Williams would often say, "If you want to be busy all year, take the first 6 months and mind your own business, Take the next 6 months and leave my business alone!"
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"All my life I've been sick and tired. Now I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired."

Fannie Lou Hamer
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BOBBY WOMACK sang this line on "Across 110th Street (movie)"

“Been down so long,getting up didn’t cross my mind.”
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