Shug Avery Chronicles

 "Shug Avery sick and nobody in this town want to take the Queen Honeybee in."

". Her mammy say She told her so. Her pappy say, Tramp."

"A woman at church say she dying"

"The women at church sometime nice to me. Sometime not."

"They look at me there struggling with Mr.

children."

"Even the preacher got his mouth on Shug Avery, now she down."

"He don't call no name,but he don't have to. Everybody know who he mean."

"He talk bout a strumpet in short skirts, smoking cigarettes, drinking gin.

“Ain't nothing wrong with Shug Avery. She just sick.

"She sicker than my mama was when she die. But she more evil than my mama and that keep her alive “