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Happy Mother’s Day: Black Mamas’ Sayings You Will Never Forget

Phyllis Coley @phyllis_coley

Mamas have held us down from the beginning of time with quick quips about things that ranged from our appearances to our attitudes and we honestly wouldn’t have it any other way. Though it may have felt like nagging when you were younger, as we age, many cannot help but notice ourselves uttering our mother’s favorite tag line, and appreciating the truth behind it. Every mom has their own personal gems, but these are a few quotes that we all know a little too well. Here are a few life lessons forever ingrained in us thanks to our Mamas:

  • “Be back by the time the streetlights come on.” 
  • “You need a shower, you smell like outside.”
  • “Fix ya face before I fix it for you.” 
  • “You got McDonald’s money?”
  • “There’s food at the house.” 
  • “I don’t care what _______’s mama does. I ain’t _______’s mama” 
  • “I brought you in this world, and I can take you out.” 
  • “Turn the lights off before my bill be sky high.” 
  • “Shut the door, you’re letting the AC out.” 
  • “Stop running in and out of my house.”
  • “When we get to the store, don’t touch nothin’ and don’t ask me for     nothin’.” 
  • “A hard head makes a soft behind.”
  • “Go sit down somewhere.”
  • “Stop all that crying before I give you something to cry about.” 
  • “You smellin’ yourself.”
  • “You’ll get treated like an adult when you start acting like one.”
  • “If you keep making that face, it’ll get stuck like that.”
  • “You better know that school work the same way you know them songs.”
  • “Who you think you talking too? I’m not one of yo’ lil nappy-headed    friends!”
  • “Take the meat out.”
  • “I will knock the taste outcha mouth.”
  • “I know that ain’t my child all over the floor in ‘they’ church clothes.”
  • “Say it again, go ahead say it, I dare you.”
  • “I don’t have to do nothin’ but stay black and die.”
  • “You will always be my baby.”