In Toni Cade Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird," immediately after Granny declines giving the men permission to film her home, the four children in her yard look at her expectantly because "Granny always got somethin to say," which means that Granny is always openly speaking her mind. Granny is a very intelligent person with a strong sense of right and wrong. Because she has strong moral values, she always feels passionate enough about her moral values to share them with others.

In addition, when the narrator says that Granny "teaches steady with no letup," the narrator means that Granny is constantly teaching the children under her care right and wrong. She teaches whenever she has the chance, and, evidently, Granny always has the chance, because she sees nearly all incidents as teaching opportunities. In the story, we see Granny teach the children under her care that it is wrong to show a lack of empathy and lack of compassion by filming a person in his or her time of trouble instead of offering any sort of help. She further teaches that doing so is an invasion of privacy and demonstrates a lack of respect.