black don't crack

English

Alternative forms

• good black don't crack

Phrase

black don't crack

1. (colloquial, from African-American Vernacular) People of African descent tend to wrinkle less with age than people with lighter skin.

   Coordinate term: Asian don't raisin

   • 1975 December 11, Geoffrey Brown, “People Are Talking About”, in Jet‎^[1], page 50:

     […] 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!"

   • 2013, E.N. Joy, I Ain't Me No More, →ISBN:

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

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

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

   • 2016, Jonathan Harvey, The History of Us, →ISBN:

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