kinfolks

I reason I will get to stand before Jesus with all my childrens and grandchildrens and great-grandchildrens and kinfolks and friends and I say to him, “Jesus Christ, us is all sad colored peoples.”

In Cold Sassy, ladies who work for pay are looked down on—except schoolteachers or widder women with no close kinfolks to turn to.

Then she begun to cry and I says All right all right I have as much pride about my kinfolks as anybody even if I dont always know where they come from.

“God told him to leave his kinfolks, his own family, go to a land I’m going to show you, and he said: ‘I’m going to make your name great.

"I hit Bonavena so hard it jarred his kinfolks all the way back in Argentina."