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Joel Chandler Harris was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent most of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution.

Harris led two professional lives: as the editor and journalist known as Joe Harris, he supported a vision of the New South with the editor Henry W. Grady , stressing regional and racial reconciliation after the Reconstruction era. As Joel Chandler Harris, fiction writer and folklorist, he wrote many 'Brer Rabbit' stories from the African-American oral tradition and helped to revolutionize literature in the process. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. December 1848 – 3. July 1908
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Famous Joel Chandler Harris Quotes

“I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee.”

Joel Chandler Harris

Legends of the Old Plantation (1886), "How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox".

“Lazy fokes's stummucks don't git tired.”

Joel Chandler Harris

Plantation Proverbs.

“Brer Rabbit keep on axin' 'im, en de Tar-Baby, she keep on sayin' nothin', twel present'y Brer Rabbit draw back wid his fis', he did, en blip he tuck 'er side er de head. Right dar's whar he broke his merlasses jug. His fis' stuck, en he can't pull loose. De tar hilt 'im.”

Joel Chandler Harris

Legends of the old Plantation (1886), "The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story".

“Jay-bird don't rob his own nes.”

Joel Chandler Harris

Plantation Proverbs.

“Hungry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.”

Joel Chandler Harris

Plantation Proverbs.

“Brer Fox, he lay low.”

Joel Chandler Harris

Legends of the old Plantation (1886), "The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story".

Joel Chandler Harris Quotes

“I seem to see before me the smiling faces of thousands of children some young and fresh and some wearing the friendly marks of age. But all children at heart and not an unfriendly face among them. And while I’m trying hard to speak the right word, I seem to hear a voice lifted above the rest saying you have made some of us happy. And so I feel my heart fluttering and my lips trembling, and I have to bow silently and turn away and hurry back into the obscurity that fits me best.”

Joel Chandler Harris

Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings (1895), Preface.

Children , Age , Smile , Feeling

“Licker talks mighty loud w'en it gits loose from de jug.”

Joel Chandler Harris

Plantation Proverbs.

“Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks--that his works were really the products, not of white Georgia, but of black Georgia. Writing afterward as a white man, he swiftly subsided into the fifth rank.”

Joel Chandler Harris

H. L. Mencken, The Sahara of the Bozart.

Books , Time

“Tater-vine growin’ w’ile you sleep.”

Joel Chandler Harris

Plantation Proverbs.

Sleep

“Ez soshubble ez a baskit er kittens.”

Joel Chandler Harris

Legends of the old Plantation (1886).

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