yassuh

"yassuh" any more, and at this moment I would have no idea where in all of Lafayette County I could find a good mule.

Sad News 2004

I'd be poor, and I'd probably be down in my hometown, washing windows or running an elevator, and saying 'yassuh' and 'nawsuh,' and knowing my place. "

Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org Dave Zirin 2008

I don't deal with the cops in any fashion but yassuh!

Tom D'Antoni: Amy Goodman Violently Arrested Today at RNC 2008

Fascism today looks like... business suits, press conferences, news stories of heroic and victimised soldiers, pleas for "unity" in the face of "the enemy," and childish phrases like "the war on terror" and "intelligence failures" swallowed mindlessly by a cowardly, obedient or otherwise yassuh-bossing press corp.

Archive 2005-12-01 2005

Instead of trying to be a good little boy and do what the white establishment wants and condemning your own, you really should be supporting him or just concede and say yassuh massur for the rest of your life.

Did 19 Year-Old Drug Dealer Promote Deadly Party? Nathaniel Livingston 2005

Dere been big dawgs high as street-cyar, yassuh, high as dat street-cyar.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

"Yassuh, yassuh," said the old negro, and with no insolence whatever he guffawed loudly.

The Heart of the Hills John Fox 1891

"Yassuh, at fus '; at fus', yassuh; wid dem and dey young leadeh.

Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884