A Lesson Before Dying Quotes

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Grant

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Grant

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Jefferson

Question 4

A hero does for others. He would do anything for people he loves because he knows it would make their lives better

Answer 4

Grant

Question 5

I want to show them what you can be

Answer 5

Grant

Question 6

I want a whole gallona ice cream

Answer 6

Jefferson

Question 7

Good by mr wiggin tell them I’m strong, tell them I’m a man

Answer 7

Jefferson

Question 8

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be

Answer 8

Grant

Question 9

I’m supposed to make him a man? Who am I god?

Answer 9

Grant

Question 10

I did not hear the verdict because I knew all the time what it would be

Answer 10

Grant

Question 11

“Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word.”

Answer 11

Jefferson

Question 12

“How do people come up with a date and time to take life from another man? Who made them God?”

Answer 12

Grant

Question 13

somebody got to do something for me …’

Answer 13

Miss Emma

Question 14

the teacher that I was…the nigger that I was supposed to be’

Answer 14

Grant

Question 15

I’d rather see a contented hog go to that chair than an aggravated hog.’

Answer 15

Sherrif Guidry

Question 16

Nothing don’t matter

Answer 16

Jefferson

Question 17

Everything you sent me to school for, you’re stripping me of.’

Answer 17

Grant

Question 18

Just a old hog they fattening up to kill for Christmas

Answer 18

Jefferson

Question 19

I don’t know anything about the soul, Reverend Ambrose.’

Answer 19

Grant

Question 20

I didn’t ask to be born.’

Answer 20

Jefferson

Question 21

nothing is changing

Answer 21

Grant

Question 22

he needs that radio, and he wants it.

Answer 22

Grant

Question 23

i got to be a man an set in a cher

Answer 23

Jefferson

Question 24

He was the strongest man in that crowded room.’

Answer 24

Paul