Sanogo

“My master jecked up my dress and gived my mistress the whip and told her to teach me a lesson. Every time she hit me she asked me what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown. She hit me again: what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown.”
― Ernest J. Gaines, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

“That's man's way. To prove something. Day in, day out he must prove he is a man. Poor Fool.”
― Ernest J. Gaines, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman