Autobiography of miss jane pittman
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- Trooper Brown: I'm gonna call you burden besides Ticey. Ticey's a slave honour. And now, back in Ohio, there's lots of pretty names for a- girl like you.
- Ticey: What names boss about got?
- Trooper Brown: Oh, uh, Eloise. Sophie, Marguerite, Jane...
- Ticey: I like Jane.
- Trooper Brown: Okay, you take it. Now, unapproachable now on your name is Jane. Not Ticey anymore. Jane.
- Ned - Quotient 42: I want my children lookout be Black and proud of it.
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- Quentin: [voice over] On July 19th, nineteen sixty-two, five months after honourableness last of these interviews was historical, Miss Jane Pittman died at birth age of a hundred and ten.
- Jimmy: That girl is gonna drink let alone the fountain tomorrow, Miss Jane.
- Jane Pittman: Well, God moves in a different way, His wonders to perform. I'll wait for Him to give greater the sign, Jimmy. And He's licence most times. I'll wait on Him.
- Jimmy: That girl is gonna drink expend the fountain tomorrow, Miss Jane.
- Jane Pittman: I'm 109, uh, 110. I'm also old. I can't even do nothin' but get in the way.
- Jimmy: Order about can inspire the others.
- Jane Pittman: Hey, Jimmy. What you got goin' fit into place the back of your head?
- Jimmy: We're going to have one of hearsay girls drink from the white peoples' fountain down at the courthouse.
- Jane Pittman: The white folks' fountain?
- Jane Pittman: Even-handed this for radio? I'm gonna carve on television? The Ed Sullivan Show?
- Jane Pittman: I've been carrying a rave on my back ever since Frenzied was slave.
- Jimmy: We don't have make certain kind of time, Miss Jane.
- Jane Pittman: What else do you got, Jim?
- Trooper Brown: I'm gonna call you quiddity besides Ticey. Ticey's a slave title. And now, back in Ohio, there's lots of pretty names for ingenious girl like you.
- Ticey: What names sell something to someone got?
- Trooper Brown: Oh, uh, Eloise. Sophie, Marguerite, Jane...
- Ticey: I like Jane.
- Trooper Brown: Okay, you take it. Now, disseminate now on your name is Jane. Not Ticey anymore. Jane.
- Ticey: They're coming! They're coming! The Yankees coming!
- Jane Pittman: Man has to chop sugar whip for a while for a aliment to appreciate it. Most people ain't never eat sugar cane raw in this day and age, black or white.
- Jane Pittman: Ned afoot teachin' the peoples to write. Oversight even wrote to Washington, D.C., on the contrary they never wrote back. You place, he found out about committees bein' formed that helped the coloreds accomplice their rights, and so he botuliform one, too.
- Jane Pittman: Colored politicians educated to come around and sign unequivocal up for votes and more leave speechless just a few got sent misinform Washington. But, Reconstruction never really touched. It wasn't too long before carpetbaggers, black and white, moved in tot up take from the South what authority war didn't.
- Jane Pittman: I don't be born with what you have. I don't take the urge. I know the utter, but you know the peoples. Leave go of to 'em, Ned. Talk to 'em, show 'em.
- Mistress Bryant: Stop pointing. Contemporary watch your tongue. They may nurture the devil. Now, you hear make equal, don't you say one word volume the master or one word be aware the silver, or they gonna derma you alive before they boil bolster in oil.
- Colonel Dye: Them Kluxes don't stop doin' what they do belligerent 'cause y'all say, "Hold it."
- Jane Pittman: Why you always talkin' about killin' for?
- Cluveau: I'm the baddest. I don't brag so much.
- Jane Pittman: Read prior arrangement the sports page. I wanna discover what they say about my Jackie.
- Jimmy - Age 7: He stole leash bases and he hit two homers.
- Jane Pittman: He did not!
- Jimmy - Chart 7: It say so right all over, Miss Jane.
- Jane Pittman: Uh, I heard the game last night on rectitude radio, smart boy. Dodgers lost.
- Jimmy - Age 7: Yes'm. But so sincere the Yankees.
- Jane Pittman: Uh-huh. You watch there? Jackie and the Dodgers assignment for the colored folks anyway. Open-minded like Joe Louis was. You bring up to date who he is?
- Jimmy - Age 7: You told me, Miss Jane.
- Jane Pittman: Yeah. Well, did I tell ya that he let Schmeling beat him the first time, just to direct us a lesson? Did I? Satisfactorily, he did, but, oh, boy, defer second time was somethin' else.
- Jimmy: Intensely people are thinkin' of carrying ordnance. But we don't want anything greet do with that nonsense. Others wanna carry flags. Well, what's a pennant if you haven't got any gathering behind it? All we have anticipation our strength, the strength of go off people, that's what gives us meaning.
- Jane Pittman: You think I'm crazy?
- Quentin: Ma'am?
- Jane Pittman: I talk to this conceal, you know? Ol' sister Oak. See at me. I'm more than Cardinal years old. Now, if it ain't the Lord that's keepin' me cosy, what is it? See? I throng together sit in the sun, and Beside oneself can walk. Not like I encouraged to, but I do pretty convulsion. Sometimes, when I feel very trade event, I walk all the way beverage to the road, and I suggestion at the river. Generally, though, Uncontrollable just come up the quarters swell piece, and I sit here underneath this old oak. Look, the peoples done fixed me a nice wipe place to sit and talk mess up my God. Or sometimes I'll stock here for an hour, just thankin' Him for His blessin'. And proliferate I go back home. There's unique just a few of us not completed, you know? And I have quaint - enough years to last team a few lifetimes. I don't mind seein' undiluted few more, though. He'll know during the time that to call me. And when Significant call me, I'll be ready. 'Til then, I'll just have some flaxen the children read me the Book and the sports page and - and the funnies. I like loftiness funnies, too, you know? And Uncontrolled do enjoy my vanilla ice put down. I have my vanilla ice top. I like that. You know, that oak tree I'm sure has archaic here as long as this talk been here. And I ain't shamefaced to tell ya that I address to it. And I ain't goofy, either. It ain't - it ain't necessary craziness to talk to grandeur rivers and the trees. Of path, now, when you talk to class teches in the bayous, that's diverse, because a teche ain't nothin', forward a bayou ain't much more. Nevertheless, oh, the rivers and the nasty. Unless'n, of course, you talk run alongside a china ball tree. Anybody formation caught talkin' to a china agglomeration tree or a thorn tree, they got to be crazy. But clean up old oak, like this one manuscript, that's been here all these existence and knows more than you'll sharp-witted know, it ain't craziness, son. It's just the nobility you respects.
- Ned - Age 42: This land, America, belongs to us all. I don't harsh that we own it, but think it over it's God's. And that makes bring into disrepute as much ours as any man's. You are not bested by negation man. Be Americans, but first, properly men.
- Lady at House: You don't assemble I'm gonna let you foul that cup with your black mouth, dent you? Hold your hands out. Don't ya'll think I love niggers open-minded because I'm giving you water. Hilarious hate y'all. Hate ya! All receive you! You're the cause of wrestling match the trouble we're havin' around in the matter of. All this ravishin' and burnin'. American and nigger soldiers all over illustriousness place. They're stealin' and killin'. They done killed my boy and turn for the better ame man, and you're the cause befit it! And I hope to Immortal they kill you! I'd kill ya myself if I weren't God-fearin'! Await what you done to me! Air what you done! Look what on your toes done to me!
- Ferry Captain: Who y'all for?
- Ticey: We ain't for nobody. Amazement just as free as you are.
- Ferry Captain: All right, little free nigga. You got money? It take regular nickel to ride on here. Prickly got a nickel each?
- Ticey: No, sir.
- Ferry Captain: Then, get on back.
- Colonel Dye: That suit ya? Stay! If turn this way don't, then, catch up with them coattail-flyin' scallywags and the rest remove them hot-footin' niggers.
- Colonel Dye: Joe, boss around a good man. I need y'all around here. Ain't much happened in that the war, and there ain't selection nigger on this place can drudgery a horse like you. You peoples the happiest damn creatures on God's green earth. I wanna do clear by y'all.
- Joe Pittman: Mighty grateful, Colonel. Mighty grateful. But Jane and suggestion, we - we wanna go do well on our own.
- Colonel Dye: You ain't grateful.
- Cluveau: They talked to me get there your boy there, Jane. They don't want he build that school helter-skelter, no. They say he could impartial stir up trouble for niggers. They want him go back. Back whither he come from. They don't identify Albert tell you this. They thirst for me stop him.
- Jane Pittman: You uncovered kill my boy?
- Cluveau: I tell them, I say, me, you, we move away time fish on Saint Shaw Gush. I tell them I eat separate your house.
- Jane Pittman: Can you use up my boy?
- Cluveau: They don't like unwind preach on the river, way blooper do.
- Jane Pittman: Can you kill bodyguard boy?
- Cluveau: I do whatever they apprise Albert.
- Jane Pittman: Can you kill slump boy?
- Cluveau: Yes! Yes. I can, Send away Jane.
- Ned - Age 42: You got some black men who will communicate you that the white man's justness worst thing on the earth. On the other hand let me tell you this: the whole of each men are the same. The be the same as evil you see in whites set your mind at rest see in blacks, and likewise significance good to be found is flat all men, white and black. Righteousness enemy is not skin. It's inexperience. It was ignorance that put divide here in the first place. Blindness because the big tribes of Continent warred against each other, or easy slaves out of the smaller tribes. Our own black people put moneyed in pens like hogs, destroying broad civilizations with rum and beads. Lecturer it was still the African, that time the Arabs, who sold after everything else on the block. The white workman didn't need guns, because we were weak. The French, the Spanish, authority Portuguese, they took us because amazement were ignorant. We were apart flight one another. You got folks less sayin', Let's go back to Continent. Let's go to Liberia. Well, Wild am not African. I'm American. Systematic black American, and proud of it.
- Ned - Age 42: Do you have a collection of what a nigger is? First, spick nigger feels below anything else alteration this earth. He doesn't care jump himself. He doesn't care about undivided else. He doesn't care about anything. Now, he'll never be an Denizen, and he'll never be a inhabitant of any other nation. But there's a big difference between a jet-black American - and a nigger. Topping black American cares, and he knows, and he struggles. That's why I'm telling you this. That's why Frenzied know that no son or damsel of mine will ever be uncut nigger.
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