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''She's always talking out her neck, making her fingers snap''

''She says, "Listen, Jiggaman, I don't care if you rap"''

 

Since the era of Jim Crow, black people could be more outspoken—to a point, particularly if they were female. To illustrate this, Sassy "Mammy" figures could scold the family they worked for and playfully berate their employers (to show that Blacks were not being oppressed). As the Civil Rights movement came up in the 60s, black people in media could be more outspoken. And because of feminism, the same thing applied for women. [[Twofer Token Minority|Combine these]], and you get the sassy black woman. It started with the heroines of [[Blaxploitation]] movies, like ''[[Coffy]]'' and ''[[Foxy Brown]]'' (both played by [[Pam Grier]]), and continued into the 1980s.

* The 2008 drama ''Fireproof'' has an entire posse of these characters working at the hospital. Of course, they spend an inordinate amount of time gossiping about the (white) heroine's love life.

* Effie White in ''[[Dreamgirls]]''

* The Dynamites and Motormouth Maybelle from ''[[Hairspray]]''. Extra points since the latter is played by Queen Latifah in the latest film.

* In ''[[National Treasure]]'', Abigail meets one while hiding from a goon.

* ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'' has three of them, Crystal, Ronnette, and Chiffon, who serve as the show's [[Greek Chorus]].

* Sophia from ''[[The Color Purple]]''. She even has a song titled "Hell No!"

 

 

* Numbuh 5 of ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]''.

** And her sister, [[The Danza|Cree]]. [[Talking to Himself|Both are voiced by]] [[Cree Summer]].

* Lana Kane of ''[[Archer]]'' Sassy? Yup. Black-ish? Yuup. Can snap your neck with her man hands? Yuuuuuup!

* Lance gets one of these as a driving instructor in ''[[Sym-Bionic Titan]]'' when he is trying to get his license. [[Hilarity Ensues]] as he has to not only keep her happy, but deal with the gang leader harassing him in the middle of the test, then the [[Monster of the Week]] trying to kill them. However, she has nothing but praise when Lance manages to survive all this and keep her alive in doing so, and passes him.