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Elvin always amazed at the sight of cane cutters, hundreds of black faces on the street buying Walkman radios and little TVs to take back to Jamaica, their season almost done. Elvin said, “I ain’t gonna say nothing but, Jesus Christ, how come we bring all these people here when our own niggers could be doing the work? I know it’s a filthy dirty job and you can get hurt swinging them machetes, but they could at least try it, ... Pretty soon they’ll be living here, as the Cuban and different other kinds are, taking our jobs.” === “I know who he’s with and the kind of car they’re driving.” “Tell me,” Gibbs said, “and we’ll both know.” === “The guy’s wife was in court at the sentencing. Now there’s a woman looks like an alligator, homeliest female I ever saw.” === “You don’t think I’d have a live ten-foot gator brought to my home, do you?” “I heard it was supposed to be dead.”