black don't crack

phrase

People of African descent tend to wrinkle less with age than people with lighter skin.

Meanings

phrase

alternative good black don't crack

  1. colloquialPeople of African descent tend to wrinkle less with age than people with lighter skin.

    She was going to be an example of black don't crack.

    2013, E.N. Joy, I Ain't Me No More, →ISBN
    3 more examples

    […] Ms. [LaWanda] Page revealed to the [white] girl that she is 55 years old. Then, before the girl could stammer her disbelief, Ms. Page quipped, "Well, you know, Black don't crack!"

    1975 December 11, Geoffrey Brown, “People Are Talking About”, in Jet, page 50

    Okay, so usually black don't crack — unless we aren't living right.

    2015, C. M. Fox, K. C. Dillon, Conversations of a Conscious Black Girl, →ISBN

    But there again, she looked amazing in the flesh too. Well, you know what they say. Black don't crack.

    2016, Jonathan Harvey, The History of Us, →ISBN
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APA

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Chicago

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