Joel Chandler Harris
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"Joel Chandler Harris" was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia/Eatonton, Georgia (U.S. state)/Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent the majority of his adult life in Atlanta, Georgia/Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution.

Harris led two professional lives: as the editor and journalist known as Joe Harris, he supported a vision of the New South with the editor Henry W. Grady (1880–1889), stressing regional and racial reconciliation after the Reconstruction era. As Joel Chandler Harris, fiction writer and folklorist, he wrote many 'Brer Rabbit' stories from the African-American oral tradition and helped to revolutionize literature in the process.

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Oh, war shill we go w'en de great day comes, / Wid be blowin' er de trumpits en de bangin' er de drums? / How many po' sinners'll be kotched out late / En find no latch ter de golden gate?

Hungry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.

Lazy folk's stummucks don't git tired.

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

Licker talks mighty loud w'en it gits loose from de jug.

You do de pulling', Sis Cow, en I'll do de gruntin.