African American proverbs

When the bait is more than the fish, 'tis time to stop fishing.

Death don't see no difference 'tween the big house and the cabin.

The rainbow might be better lookin' if 'twasn't such a cheap show.

If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell you where he's going.

Heaps of good cotton stocks get chopped up from association with the weeds.

The very time I thought I was lost, my dungeon shook and my chains fell off.

If you want to keep something secret from black folks, put it between the covers of a book.

We ain't what we want to be; we ain't what we gonna be; but thank God, we ain't what we was.

Occasionally a man with a right smart education can't find his knife when it gets in the wrong pocket.

The squirrel can beat the rabbit climbing a tree, but then the rabbit makes the best stew that sort of equalizes the thing.

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