Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou

Author:Maya Angelou
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Literary, American, Literary Criticism, Historical, Biography & Autobiography, African American, Cultural Heritage, Women
ISBN: 9781588369239
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2009-04-21T07:25:03.151482+00:00

CHAPTER 21

I took a job as swing-shift waitress in a day-and-night restaurant called the Chicken Shack. The record player blared the latest hits incessantly and the late-night clientele spent their overflow energy loudly in the brightly lighted booths.

Smoking grass eased the strain for me. I made a connection at a restaurant nearby. People called it Mary Jane, hash, grass, gauge, weed, pot, and I had absolutely no fear of using it. In the black ghetto of the forties, marijuana, cocaine, hop (opium) and heroin were only a little harder to obtain than rationed whiskey. Although my mother didn't use anything but Scotch (Black & White), she often sang a song popular in the thirties that at its worst didn't condemn grass, and at its best extolled its virtues.

Dream about a reefer five foot long

Vitamin but not too strong

You'll be high but not for long

If you're a viper.

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