New Orleans Literature Final Exam Quotes

"I spent all his poor Grammaw Reilly's insurance money to keep him in college for eight years, and since then all he's done is lay around the house watching television" (22).

Mrs. Reilly

"On some days I could only paste in three or four slips and at the same time feel satisfied with the quality of my work. The library authorities resented my integrity about the whole thing. They only wanted another animal who could slop glue on their best-sellers" (51).

Ignatius

"There I was just a little thing breaking them ersters open. I didn't go to no school. Not me, babe. I was right there with them ersters banging away on the banquette" (91).

Mrs. Reilly

"With all his education, mind you. Selling weenies out on the street in broad daylight" (172).

Mrs. Reilly

"In other words, you want to become totally bourgeois... I imagine that you'd like to become a success or something equally vile" (296).

Ignatius

"A boy with your education bumming around with funny people down in the Quarter, going into a barroom to look for a lady of the evening" (339).

Mrs. Reilly

"He had family traditions, and a social position which was his from birth and an inalienable right to hold his head without an unknown fear gripping at his heart" (15).

Alice Dunbar-Nelson

"But he did not go, for when he returned to Louisiana, he was too busy, then he decided that it would be useless, sentimental folly" (6).

Alice Dunbar-Nelson

"And Victor won't have any kind of darkey servant either here or at the office. He says they're shiftless and worthless and generally no-account. Of course, he knows, he's had lots of experience with them in his business" (12).

Elise Vannier

"He found a sickening anger and disgust rising in himself at a people whose prejudices made him live a life of deception" (10).

Alice Dunbar-Nelson

"The petit-bourgeois is a proletarian who makes himself small to become bourgeois" (338).

Pierre Bourdieu

"We try to teach them about America--about the opportunities America has to offer" (476). (NOT ON THE TEST)

Mrs. Williams

"Once I saw a feature about surfing on T.V. Surfing on beautiful waves on a beach in Hawaii, or somewhere... And then I though, I don't see any black folks on T.V., ever" (476). (NOT ON THE TEST)

Joe Brown Jr.

"I told him there is no hope. You a black mother-f*cker and you may as well learn to make the best of it" (480).

James Roberts

"Not Italy is offered, by evidence that it exists" (148).

Theodor Adorno