I'm on page 99 of 463 of Yesterday's Roses:
"We is like the vinegar down there on the bottom. White folks is like the oil on top. They gonna stay on top no matter what, and they ain't gonna mess with us."
"We is like the vinegar down there on the bottom. White folks is like the oil on top. They gonna stay on top no matter what, and they ain't gonna mess with us."