Sentence examples for High yella from inspiring English sources
In her 2011 work, "High Yella Masterpiece: We Ain't No Cotton Pickin' Negroes," two men in white three-piece suits stare deadpan at viewers while holding enormous cones of spun pink sugar.
Oprah, one of Kelley's sources suggests, is with her "high-yella" boyfriend, Stedman Graham, because "she needs to have a successful light-skinned man by her side to feel secure".
In his memoir "Dreams From My Father," Mr. Obama also used words and phrases that are not as widely known outside the black community, like "trifling" (lazy and inadequate) and "high-yella" (a reference to light-skinned blacks).
From "high-yellas" to "coal-coloureds", it is a tension steeped not only in language but in the arts, from Harlem Renaissance novelist Nella Larsen's book, Passing, to Spike Lee's film, School Daze.
To those of us who harbor a secret passion for high-quality films about bookkeepers, certified public accountants, auditors and Internal Revenue Service operatives, the release of "Yella" is a very exciting moment in the history of the genre.
Here Yella embraces her talent as a deceitful wheeler-dealer in meetings that have the tension of high-stakes poker games.
Christian Petzold ("Yella") directed.
"Yella?" So the old painter agreed.
Yella's has a clean, bright interior.
