Mother used to say, 'If you're a good dog, you will be happy.
As mother used to say, 'Don't bother your head about what doesn't concern you.
If you are in a room and you hear anyone trying to get in,' mother used to say, 'bark.
The first thing a dog has to learn,' mother used often to say, 'is that the whole world wasn't created for him to eat.
I 'membered how my mother used to tell about an old colored man who ground her scissors and he ground dem on both sides and dey would not cut anything.
My mother used to whip me most every day with a broom stick and even hit me with chairs.
Mother used to tell a tale 'bout when she was a little girl.
My mother used to tell me how they used to hide behind trees so the boss man couldn't see em when they was prayin' and at night put out the light and turn the pot down.
My mother used to take me there and leave me, but she taught me herself at home.
Other points gained in interview-- Text of Interview (Unedited) "My mother used to sit down and talk to us and tell us about slavery.
My mother used to tell me that I was a little baby, six months old when our master, Joe Potts was his name, got ready to clear out of Florida.
To complete the picture, his mother, watching him, beamed as my mother used to do when she watched me reading at the Preacher's Synagogue or at home in our wretched basement.
Her taste in this was always a law unto the paper-hanger, and my mother used to shiver when she peeped in, and wondered how Betty could sleep peacefully in such a profusion of colour.
Betty's forte in the culinary department was broth-making, and my mother used to say, with a smile, that when Nathan was her guest Betty always put her best foot foremost.
A hedge of waving willows screened from me the Cundy stream; but its joyous rhythmic ripple, as it washed its sandy, pebbled bed, sounded in my ear like the crooning song my mother used to sing when I lay on her knee as a child.
And when he quoted the nursery song that my mother used to sing, my stubborn resentment--at what?
My mother used often to go alone through a ravine at night to see the Ramsey's.
Mother used to tell me about you when I was a little girl.
Mother used to smile, and tell me she was glad to see me trying to do right, and then it seemed easier, but aunt Prudence never does, and I won't try to please her any more.
Mother used to like to look at them too, and she told me that some of them were great large worlds, a great deal bigger than ours, and some were suns with worlds moving around them.
My mother used to say I looked as Allan did when he went away.
And, Janet, you must 'mind me of things, as my mother used to do.
Mother used to cry about it sometimes but it had to be paid somehow.
The kitchen floor was below the ground, and on wet days my mother used to make a little dam of rags at the door to keep the trickling water back.
And my mother used to take Virginia on her knee, and make her say her prayers every night; but she never did so to me; and I used to hear what Virginia said, and then go into a corner and repeat it to myself.
My mother used to scold whenever I came in; but that I did not mind; her greatest punishment was refusing me a clean shirt on a Sunday.
My mother used to accompany her mother on her visits to all the outlying little huts in which the various negroes lived, and she often told us the story of a visit one day to “Mom Lucy’s” little home, where a baby had just been born.
Oh, ay," she answered, vehemently, as mymother used to do.
And my mother usedto take Virginia on her knee, and make her say her prayers every night; but she never did so to me: and I used to hear what Virginia said, and then go into a corner and repeat it to myself.
My mother used to scold whenever I came in; but that I did not mind: her greatest punishment was refusing me a clean shirt on a Sunday.
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