Word: hollers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trunks, parcels, grandson, etc. To cut short, at last the conductor gave us a good start, and we wheezed off at the speed of six miles a week. At about every other telegraph-post, just as the baby was getting tranquilized, the conductor would step into our car and "holler," "Tickets, please. Change cars for-" we couldn't hear where, but we surrendered a coupon and moved into the baggage-car, that being the only obvious change; and just as the baby was calming down again, we would come to another post and have to surrender another coupon and move...
Unless we all begin to holler...
...part so much as consume it, then let it shine out of his eyes and resound in his mouth: "If I lets it go too long, then everybody say, now ain't dat one shiftless nigger . . . an' if I chop him down quick, then dey holler dat po' man up dere fightin' a go-rilla!" When white folks watch, Jefferson plays animal or vegetable. The 250-watt Satchmo grin flicks on at will, the massive shoulders shrug at circumstances beyond comprehension. But under the actor is the lava of black rage. When it erupts, the other...
...Fresh not long ago, they are now unspeakable for those who would sound current. Things aren't "groovy" or "cool" any more -these two resurrected favorites of the '40s are dead again. The Women's Liberation Movement has consigned "chick" to outer darkness; say "sister" or holler uncle. Even "like"-as in "like you know how it is, man"-is on the blacklist. So is "man," for that matter. And the angry protester who still cries "Right on" risks being right off; the old Black Panther slogan has been co-opted by the straight Establishment...
JACKSON: No man who is not hurting can tell a man who is hurting how to holler. He may tell him that in addition to being mad you've got to get smart, and you've got to have method to your madness. The business of trying to decry people because of the way they complain of injustice is past and gone...