Crooks

    Cards (22)

    • The boss gives him hell when he’s mad. But the stable buck don’t give a damn about that
    • If i say something, why its just a n*er sayin it… this is just a n*er talking… so it dont mean nothing
    • The door opened quietly and the stable buck put in his head… lined with pain, the eyes patient “Mr Slim”
    • Being a stable buck and a cripple, he was more permanent than the others
    • In the harness room; a little shes leaned off the wall of the barn
    • It was difficult for Crooks to conceal his pleasure with anger
    • They let the n****r come in that night
    • I ain’t wanted in the bunkhouse, and you ain’t wanted in my room
    • Crooks was a proud, aloof man. He kept his distance and demanded others kept theirs
    • in the stable buck’s room, a small electric globle threw a meager yellow light
    • Got a crooked back when a horse kicked him
    • His lean face was lined with deep black wrinkles, and he had thin, pain-tightened lips
    • “Give the stable buck hell?” he asked, ”sure… ya see the stable bucks a n****r”
    • Crooks, the negro stable buck
    • I can’t play cause im black. They say i stink. Well, i tell you, you all of you stink to me
    • Crooks had reduced himself to nothing… he said, “yes ma’am“ and his voice was toneless
    • well you keep your place then n****r. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny
    • His tone was little more friendly
    • A guy goes nuts if he aint got nobody… i tell ya a guy gets too lonely an he gets sick
    • you guys coming in an settin made me forget. What she says is true
    • nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land
    • Crooks’ face lighted in his torture
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