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...little chillun! Git on boa'd, big chillun! Git on boa'd, all de chillun! Dere's room fo' many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Songs: Rag Peddler | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

...more in the movies. They are ragged, they roll their eyes, they shout "Who dat man?" with religious ecstasy, and they are full of rhythm. At the end of the film they reappear, marching down the racetrack behind the Marx boys, shouting, "All God's chillun got money...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: A Day at the Races and Meet Me in St. Louis | 2/15/1962 | See Source »

...five months later by the same officer, Brazier's wife related: " 'Y' then said, 'I told you I would get you.' James said, 'What do you want to hurt me for? I ain't done nothing. I got a heap of little chillun.' 'Y' said, I don't give a goddam how many children you got, you're going away from here.' 'Y' pulled out his pistol and stuck it against James's stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Dawdling on the Corner | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

...theory seems to be that so long as a man is a failure he is one of God's chillun, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: THE LAST OF MENCKEN | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...Carmen is pattern passion: a rose, a flame and a blade, woven into drama as formal as a Spanish dance. In Carmen Jones the dance is a ring of savages in firelight, jumping any way the devil pulls the strings, terrible and beautiful and simple as God's chillun without their wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 1, 1954 | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

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