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“Rule Number Six: you don’t hit on her children. White people like to do their own spanking.”

I just think, Get it over with, lady, so I can tell Leroy we got to move all the way to the North Pole next to Santy Claus where nobody’s heard Hilly’s lies about me.

Sugar Ditch is as low as you can go in Mississippi, maybe the whole United States.

a stuffed grizzly bear that looks like it ate up the last maid and is biding for the next one.

Nice white ladies don’t go around barefoot.

like some kind of white trash.

If this place was in a storybook, there’d be witches in those woods. The kind that eat kids.

It looks like a castle, gray brick rising high in the sky and left and right too.

some scrubby and grassless like a baldheaded old man.

look like he just counting the minutes till he get to go back to his accounting job.