ALBD Quotes Flashcards
I’m the teacher… And I teach what the white folks 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 his 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 only on haulin water to the fiel on 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
My duty is to stand by sis Emma
Grant
I want a whole gallona icrecream
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 did not hear the verdict,because I knew all the time what it would be
Grant
What on earth I got to give up, mr Wiggins?
Jefferson
No, me Wiggins, I got to go myself. Just me. Mr Wiggins.
Jefferson
Somebody got to do something for me
Miss Emma
The teacher that I was… Then nigger that I was supposed to be
Grant
I’d rather see s contented hog go to that chair than an aggravated hog
Guidry
Nothing don’t matter
Jefferson
Everything you sent me to school for p, you’re stripping me of
Grant
You want me to stay away and let him win? The white man? You want him to win?
Grant
I don’t know anything about the soul reverend Ambrose
Grant
This is the women I’m going to marry one day
Gran the
I didn’t ask to be born
Jefferson
Somebody gone do something for me fore I die
Miss Emma
Nothing is changing
Grant
How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?
Grant
I got to be a man an set in a Cher
Jefferson
