31 African American Proverbs / Page 3
- 21. Rooster makes mo' racket dan de hen w'at lay de aig.
- 22. Talkin' 'bout fire doesn't boil the pot.
- 23. Tell me whom you love, and I'll tell you who you are.
- 24. The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice.
- 25. The rainbow might be better lookin' if 'twasn't such a cheap show.
- 26. The squirrel can beat the rabbit climbing a tree, but then the rabbit makes the best stew that sort of equalizes the thing.
- 27. The very time I thought I was lost, my dungeon shook and my chains fell off.
- 28. The worm don't see nothing pretty in the robin's song.
- 29. Wagon makes the loudest noise when it's goin' out empty.
- 30. We ain't what we want to be; we ain't what we gonna be; but thank God, we ain't what we was.
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