You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you.

Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.

Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was.

You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike -- in the second place, folks don't like to have someone around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates them. Your not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.

But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.