I am a Christian, Baptist mostly, I guess, and I believe in the Great Beyond. I don't think you have to go to church all the time to be saved, but you have to be right with the Man up yonder before you can be saved.
I am a Republican, and it makes my blood boil whenever I hear a negro say he is a democrat. They should all be Republicans.
I have been married twice. I married William Cunningham here in 1922. He is dead; in fact, both my husbands are dead, so I don't see much need of talking about them.
Oklahoma Writers' Project
Ex-Slaves
[Date stamp: AUG 19 1937]
WILLIAM CURTIS
Age 93 yrs.
McAlester, Oklahoma
"Run Nigger, run,
De Patteroll git ye!
Run Nigger, run,
He's almost here!"
"Please Mr. Patteroll,
Don't ketch me!
Jest take dat nigger
What's behind dat tree."
Lawsy, I done heard dat song all my life and it warn't no joke neither. De Patrol would git ye too if he caught ye off the plantation without a pass from your Master, and he'd whup ye too. None of us dassn't leave without a pass.