Sentence examples for ofay from inspiring English sources

By 1916, the great black jazz pianists James P. Johnson and Luckey Roberts were telling Eubie Blake about "this very talented ofay piano player" who could perform their most difficult tricks.

After Norman Mailer called Baldwin "too charming a writer to be major," Baldwin replied by offering up what the black jazz musicians Mailer loved said of him: "They thought he was a real sweet ofay cat, but a little frantic".

Someone would start a sentence: "Those ofay cats bopping out on the stoop are blowin' like Birrr... " and suddenly the words would begin to come out slower.

They thought he was a real sweet ofay cat, but a little frantic".

Black excellence harks back to an earlier time, when hardworking, aspirational parents told their kids, "Don't make us go up to that school," meaning, Don't mess up, do better than great, and never let "them" (the goyim, those ofays) see you sweat.

Only the ofays… Somehow they seem to think that a Negro doctor lacks morality".

But for them the real prize is getting one over on those dim-witted ofays.