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"Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as ah been able tuh. Maybe it's some far off in de ocean where de black man is in power."(14) African Americans have been over ruled and over powered by the white man for many of years. the white man thought that they could use the African Americansas slaves because they were less then themselves, which is very wrong. the African Americans are they same as every one else.

"And Ah can't die easy thinkin' maybe de menfolks white or black is makin' a spit cup outta you"(20) nanny doesn't want to see janie live her life the way she lived her own, because it was so bad. she wants janie to marry a rich man, because if she doesn't shes going to end up having some old white mang or black man powering her the rest of her life, and it won't be nice. nanny is afraid that the white man will beat her and force her to do dirty work, because they think that she is less then them. she listens to her nanny but after a few marriages decides to whats best for herself and does what she wants.

" Ah was wid dem white chillun so much till Ah didn't know Ah wuzn't white till Ah was round six years old"(8) the other kids were nice to her until she figured that she wasn't white. they started making fun of her cause she was black and didn't even know it. it's another way the white man breaks down the black women. it wasn't her fault that she didn't know that she was black, because she was growing up with the white kids, but they didn't care. it was easy for them to make fun of her to because she was different then they were and they wouldn't have done anything if it was a white girl.