The days when "Mama Hated Diesels," the legendary album of trucker anthems by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, dominated a trucker's tape deck are long gone.

Mama hated her.

Ms. Woodson gets Melanin's instant, enveloping, mind-splintering fear absolutely right: "Maybe Mama hated men.

"Mama Hated Diesels" (Kevin "Blackie" Farrell)

Mama hates Gina because she thinks she is trying to take Martin from her.

One Gaje had been responsible, and because of him, Mama hated them all.

Mama, I hate the idea of women in combat.

Mama hates it.

Mama hated it that I was a tomboy.

Of the marriage, Weld told Guy Flatley of The New York Times in 1971, "Mama hated my husband - she's a jealous lover, you know.