I know all about how you are always making
a fuss to be proud because you don't holler so much when you run in to
where you ain't got any business to be, and so you get hurt, the way
you ought to. And then, you kind of people are very brave then, sure,
with all your kinds of suffering, but the way I see it, going round
with all my patients, that kind of courage makes all kind of trouble,
for them who ain't so noble with their courage, and then they got it,
always to be bearing it, when the end comes, to be hurt the hardest.
It's like running around and being game to spend all your money
always, and then a man's wife and children are the ones do all the
starving and they don't ever get a name for being brave, and they
don't ever want to be doing all that suffering, and they got to stand
it and say nothing. That's the way I see it a good deal now with all
that kind of braveness in some of the colored people. They always make
a lot of noise to show they are so brave not to holler, when they got
so much suffering they always bring all on themselves, just by
doing things they got no business to be doing. I don't say, never,
Melanctha, they ain't got good courage not to holler, but I never did
see much in looking for that kind of trouble just to show you ain't
going to holler. No its all right being brave every day, just living
regular and not having new ways all the time just to get excitements,
the way I hate to see it in all the colored people.
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