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“The South, in general, and Stamps, Arkansas, in particular had had hundreds of years' experience in demoting even large adult blacks to psychological dwarfs. Poor white children had the license to address lauded and older blacks by their first names or by any names they could create.”

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Book:Letter to My Daughter

Source: Letter to My Daughter

“There’s this myth that certain cultures have a better way of handling their old leathery people, but we just called him a shaman because Fruit Roll Up with Braids wasn’t on our cultural radar.”

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Book:Limericks of Loss And Regret: Gripping And Poignant Interludes

Source: Limericks of Loss And Regret: Gripping And Poignant Interludes

“You might be thinking by now that I had a lot of aunts and uncles, but that was just the courtesy of those days; children were not allowed to go around first-naming older people.”

Respect For Elders

Book:Jayber Crow

Source: Jayber Crow