Perhaps she didn't mean to do it, but she uttered the best and most memorable line in all of American
film, "Ah don't know nothin' bout birthin' no babies!"
None of the rest of it is as memorable to me. I know. Call me strange; but she summed up slavery, she summed up servitude, she summed up all in this world we could ever possibly owe this country
no matter what else might happen. And yet, we continue to give.
We continue to do without. That is the legacy of millions of sacrificial lambs. And the legacy of what much of Amercia thinks we should embody as is encompassed by what William Faulkner's narrator thinks of Dilsey in the last lines of The Sound and The Fury: "she endures."
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