The Drinking Gourd

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Quote: Hannibal: Me? I am the only kind of slave I could stand to be—a bad one.  Every day that come and hour that pass that I got sense to make a half step do for a whole, every day that I can pretend sickness ‘stead of health; to be stupid ‘stead of smart, lazy ‘stead of quick—I aims to do it. And the more pain it give Marster and the more it cost him ---the more Hannibal be a man!

From: Lorraine Hansberry, The Drinking Gourd in To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words, Adapted by Robert Nemiroff with an Introduction by James Baldwin, 1969.

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