Variant: There is two things everybody got to find out for theirselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Pheoby, yuh got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo' papa and yo' mama and nobody else can't tell yuh and show yuh. Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God and they got tuh find out about livin fuh theyselves.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Context: "Well, Ah see Mouth-Almighty is still sittin' in de same place. And Ah reckon they got me up in they mouth now.""Yes indeed. You know if you pass some people and don't speak tuh suit 'em dey got tuh go way back in yo' life and see whut you ever done. They know mo' 'bout yuh than you do yo' self. They done 'heard' 'bout you just what they hope done happened.""If God don't think no mo' 'bout 'em than Ah do, they's a lost ball in de high grass."
Janie and Phoeby, Ch. 1, p. 16.
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(1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964), Ballad of Hollis Brown
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 20
“Mama may have, Papa may have
But God bless the child that's got his own
That's got his own.”
Billie Holiday
(1915–1959) American jazz singer and songwriter
God Bless The Child
Context: Them that's got shall get
Them that's not shall lose
So the Bible said and it still is news
Mama may have, Papa may have
But God bless the child that's got his own
That's got his own.
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.”
Variant: If you haven’t got it, you can’t show it. If you have got it, you can’t hide it.
Source: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 12 : My People! My People!
“Pregnant women got someone else in there hangin' from their ribcage goin' "We got to go now."”
Mike Warnke
(1946) Evangelical Christian minister
Stuff Happens (album) (1985)
