Exam Quotes Flashcards
Courtesies
World one has to justify simple courtesies
Convenience
Live a life cushioned by so much convenience that it is sterile
Mixture
Mixture of ignorance and arrogance
Condescending
All the same - condescending
Nasty/nice
Nasty ones were too nasty and nice ones too nice
Trophy
An exotic trophy, and Ivory tusk
Two dollars
Work for two dollars less than the other waitresses
Rap videos
Mastered the swagger of American rap videos
Western influence as child
Watching Sesame Street, reading Enid Blyton, eating cornflakes
A western educated man
Science to laugh indulgently at the ways of my people
Gawk
Gael at the lives of poor people who could never gawk back
Dictate/accepting
People could dictate life
Used to accepting what life gave
Pigs
Refused to look at him because he was just like the pigs
Clear link
Clear link between education and dignity
Car+gun
Everybody in America had a car and a gun
Mainstream
If you want to get anywhere you have to be as mainstream as possible
Customs
Raked through my suitcase
Foodstuffs as if they were spiders
Curled tight
curled up tight like uncle’s fist
Eager smile
The eager smile of a person who wanted to be liked
Adapt
Never move forward unless they adapt to America
Speak English
Speak English. There are people behind you
Building smell
Don’t want to be know
Smells of foreign food
No culture
Problem
Have no culture, no culture at all
Opportunities
A life littered with … opportunities. A life that is not for me
Grace
It was grace who
It was grace who
Odd rootlessness
Awards
Friends
Grace to Afamefuna
Kamara and Tobechi’s relationship
An effortless ease To False ... Ungainly American accent Silences were awkward Flatness Desperate sadness
Put it down
Too happy
Did not have to do with him
Put it down
Study literature
Study literature at university
Not viable
JAMB exam
Wanted to take the JAMB exam again and try for the university
Chinaza house
The house shone
Floor furniture
Ujunwa’s story
Whole thing is implausible
Real story of real people
Victims
Crude way
Accepting
Used to accepting what life gave
Edward’s sexual objectification
Tried not to notice that Edward often stared at her body
Never on her face
Lie done for [him]
Higher/fewer
The higher you go the fewer women there are
Ambition
We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much
Terrible choices
They’re pushed to make terrible choices
Thin/fat
Rich Americans were thin and poor Americans were fat
