You watch your place, nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy, it ain't even funny. — John Steinbeck

Well, God knows he don't need any brains to buck barley bags. But don't you try to put nothing over, Milton. I got my eye on you.

His ear heard more than is said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.