A Lesson Before Dying Quotes Flashcards
(24 cards)
I’m the teacher… and I teach what the white folks around here tell me to teach… they never told me how to keep a black boy out of a liquor store
Grant
The white people out there are saying you don’t have it, that you’re a hog not a man… but I know they are wrong
Grant
It look like the lord just work for wite folks cause ever sens I wasn nothin but a little boy I be on my on havlin water to the fiel an that ol water cart
Jefferson
A hero does for others. He would do anything for people he loves because he knows it would make their lives better
Grant
I want to show them what you can be
Grant
I want a whole gallona ice cream
Jefferson
Good by mr wiggin tell them I’m strong, tell them I’m a man
Jefferson
I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be
Grant
I’m supposed to make him a man? Who am I god?
Grant
I did not hear the verdict because I knew all the time what it would be
Grant
“Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word.”
Jefferson
“How do people come up with a date and time to take life from another man? Who made them God?”
Grant
somebody got to do something for me …’
Miss Emma
the teacher that I was…the nigger that I was supposed to be’
Grant
I’d rather see a contented hog go to that chair than an aggravated hog.’
Sherrif Guidry
Nothing don’t matter
Jefferson
Everything you sent me to school for, you’re stripping me of.’
Grant
Just a old hog they fattening up to kill for Christmas
Jefferson
I don’t know anything about the soul, Reverend Ambrose.’
Grant
I didn’t ask to be born.’
Jefferson
nothing is changing
Grant
he needs that radio, and he wants it.
Grant
i got to be a man an set in a cher
Jefferson
He was the strongest man in that crowded room.’
Paul
