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black don't crack en · X
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(colloquial, from African-American Vernacular) People of African descent tend to wrinkle less with age than people with lighter skin.
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:She was going to be an example of black don't crack.
2013, E.N. Joy, I Ain't Me No More, →ISBN: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:[…] 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:
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Asian don't raisin