IMPORTANT QUOTATIONS / QUOTES



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Directions: Below is a list of important quotes from the novel. For each quote listed you are to complete an Attribution/Analysis explanation. Attribution means who is responsible for the quote or where/when was the quote used. Analysis means write an explanation of what you think the quote means and why it is important. See the example for clarification. Use the page numbers to help you locate the quotes. Final draft Attribution/Analysis should be typed.

Example:

"To all our little first grade friends only today starting on the road to knowledge and education, may your tiny feet find the pathways of learning steady and forever before you." (pg.19)

Attribution: Miss Crocker on the first day of School.

Analysis: The teacher means well, but has learned to conform to what is expected of her by the white school board. In spite of what she says, education is given to these children grudgingly and with many inaccuracies.

IMPORTANT QUOTATIONS / QUOTES

1. “Look out there, Cassie girl. All that belongs to you. You ain’t never had to live on nobody’s place but your own and long as you live and the family survives, you’ll never have to. That’s important. You may not understand that now, but one day you will. Then you will see.” (pg. 7)

2. "12.....September 1933....Very Poor..........nigra." (pg. 25)

3. "Yes’m, he can. He been reading since he was four. He can’t read all them big words, but he can read them columns. See what’s in the last row. Please look, Miz Crocker." (pg. 28)

4. "Biting the hand that feeds you. That’s what you’re doing, Mary Logan, biting the hand that feeds you." Again Mama laughed. "If that’s the case, Daisy, I don’t think I need that little bit of food." (pg. 30)

5. "Friends gotta trust each other, Stacey, ‘cause ain’t nothin’ like a true friend." (pg. 77)

6. "Sometimes a person’s gotta fight," he said slowly. "But that store ain’t the place to be doing it. From what I hear, folks like them Wallaces got no respect at all for colored folks and they just think it’s funny when we fight each other." ( pg. 87)

7. "As we passed one of the counters, I spied Mr. Barnett wrapping an order of pork chops for a white girl. Adults were one thing; I could almost understand that. They ruled things and there was nothing that could be done about them. But some kid who was no bigger than me was something else again." ( pg. 110)

8. "So now, even though seventy years have passed since slavery, most white people still think of us as they did back then-that we’re not as good as they are-and people like Mr. Simms hold on to that belief harder than some other folks because they have little else to hold on to. For him to believe that he is better than we are makes him think that he’s important simply because he’s white." (pg. 129)

9. "If you want something and it’s a good thing and you got it in the right way, you better hang onto it and don’t let nobody talk you out of it. You care what a lot of useless people say ‘bout you, you’ll never get anywhere ‘cause there’s a lotta folks don’t want you to make it." (pg. 143)

10. "These are things they need to hear, baby. It's their history." (pg. 148)

11. "During slavery there was some farms that mated folks like animals to produce more slaves. Breeding slaves brought a lot of money for them slave owners, ‘specially after the government said they couldn’t bring no more slaves from Africa, and they produced all kinds of slaves to sell on the block. And folks with enough money, white men and even free black men, could buy ‘zactly what they wanted. My folks was bred for strength like they folks and they grand folks ‘fore ‘em. Didn’t matter none what they thought ‘bout the idea. Didn’t nobody care." (pg. 149)

12. “I’ve got too many worries of my own to worry ‘bout Cassie Uncle Tomming Lilly Jean.” (pg. 173)

13. Roll of thunder hear my cry over the water bye and bye Ole man comin’ down the line Whip in hand to beat me down But I ain't gonna let him Turn me 'round. (pg.242)

14. "What happened to T.J. in the night I did not understand, but I knew that it would not pass. And I cried for those thing which had happened in the night and would not pass." (pg. 276)

15. "I will continue the Logan's story with the same life guides that have always been mine, for it is my hope that these books, one of the first chronicles to mirror a black child's hopes and fears from childhood innocence to awareness to bitterness and disillusionment, will one day be instrumental in teaching children of all colors the tremendous influence that Cassie's generation--my father's generation--had in bringing about the great Civil Rights Movement of the fifties and sixties. Without understanding that generation and what it and the generations before it endured, children of today and of the future cannot understand or cherish the precious rights or equality which they now possess, both in the North and in the South." Mildred Taylor, 1977

Now select 5 quotes of your own from the novel. For each quote, write an Attribution/Analysis and page number.

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