"Mama's baby, Papa's maybe" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1994, Susan Straight, “Confinement”, in Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, page 96:",
          "text": "What the guys all say? Mama’s baby, Papa’s maybe. Nah—I seen that nose, and she mine.",
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          "ref": "1996, Eric Jerome Dickey, “Chiquita”, in Sister, Sister, New York, N.Y.: Signet, published 1997 December, →ISBN, page 229:",
          "text": "“[…] Your name is Chiquita?” […] “That’s Spanish for petite or small. You part Mexican?” / I laughed. “Not that I know of, but you never know. Mama’s baby, Papa’s maybe.”",
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          "text": "As far as the request for a DNA test I was sort of taken aback. The old but familiar saying, ‘Mama’s baby, Papa’s maybe’ jumped into my head.",
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