text: who had read roll of thunder, hear my cry? what does this quote mean?  need about 5 sentences!    "we logan’s don’t have much to do with the white folks... "cause white folks mean trouble. you see blacks hanging ‘round with whites, they’re headed for trouble. maybe one day whites and blacks can be real friends, but right now the country ain’t built that way. now you could be right ‘bout jeremy making a much finer friend that t.j. ever will be. the trouble is, down here in mississippi, it costs too much to find out..." it's talking about the fact that, during the time in which the story is set, it isn't safe for black people to cross over into the somewhat forbidden world of white people. even if they could manage to find some people who weren't bigots and were willing to befriend them, there were plenty of other whites who were bigoted and might try to hurt them for "infiltrating."    ps-- do your own homework. it's a great book and it'd do you good to read it carefully and really think about it.