good black don't crack
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- Alternative form of black don't crack
- 2010, Timothy M. Gay, Satch, Dizzy, and Rapid Robert, →ISBN:
- “Good black don't crack,” the late Buck O'Neil liked to joke when people complimented Buck's appearance.
- 2011, J. Marie Darden, Finding Dignity, →ISBN, page 86:
- Big Melba says those light ones age quickly and poorly, but good black don't crack.”
- 2015, April Sinclair, Coffee Will Make You Black: A Novel, →ISBN:
- “Chile, good black don't crack.” Grandma smiled.
- 2016, Noelle Vella, A Weekend Affair, →ISBN:
- “You're forty?” I looked him up and down. Damn, forty was looking like that these days? I thought. I guess the old adage good black don't crack was real.