Disclaimer: I do not own Roll of Thunder, nor do I particularly like it all that much. Poor T.J. Well, he brought it on himself...

Hey, I just randomly wrote this for my English class. It was an assignment and I was kinda looking up random documents so I could write online some more, but I saw this and... yeah. Most of it is made up of quotes from the book, and the ones in quotation marks are phrases that people actually said. So, enjpy the randomness of the poem, I guess. Heads us, it's abstract and in no particular order. Also about racism, if you don't catch the drift.

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"White people demand our respect"

"What we give them is fear"

"You fine on them"

"And they'll hang you for sure"

"I Already know what I am"

Black

"I ain't nasty!"

"White people ain't nothin'"

But in this world

They are

"Lillian Jean ain't got the brains of a flea"

But she wins

Because she's white

Mr. Simms

"Don't you come messing with me!"

Uncle Hammer

He went up to the Simmses

"I hope he knocks his block off!"

"That little ole fig tree"

"It gives up, it'll die"

"We don't give up"

"We can't"

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Hope you liked it... or at least understood it. Thanks for reading, and have a nice day! Darn, Bon Jovi song... stuck in head...