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"i do the best i can do. I come here every Friday... I go out. Make my way. Find my strength to carry me through to the next friday." pg. 40-Ansel, Ava, Angie, Fletcher

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"If they got a white fellow sitting on the bench...you can bet your last dollar he can't play! The colored guy got to be twice as good before he can get on the team." pg.34 -Jennifer, Logan, Caitlin, Nick

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"It's just .... She gives me a different idea..... a different understanding about myself. I can step out of this house and get away from the pressures and problems..... be a different man."
-Riley Benefiel
Act 2, Troy

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"there it is. $76.42. you see this bono?now i aint gonn get but 6 of that back" pg 19- Fletcher, Angie, Ava, Ansel

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I'll take care of your baby for you... cause like you say...she's innocent.. and you cant visit the sins of the father upon the child.  A motherless child has got a hard time.
Pg 79 Nick, Logan, Caitlin, Jennifer

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Troy: "The only thing I say about the A&P is I'm glad Cory got that job down there. Help him take care of his school clothes and things. Gabe done moved out and things getting tight around here. He got that job. ... He can start to look out for himself" p 8
Nick, Logan, Jennifer, Cait

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Like you? I go out of here every morning...bust my butt...putting up with them crackers° every day...cause I like you? You about the biggest fool I ever saw. (Pause.) It’s my job. It’s my responsibility! You understand that? A man got to take care of his family.  -Michael Act 1 Scene 3

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"Don't care what color you were. Come telling me I come along too early. If you could play...then they ought to have let you play." pg. 10 -Ansel, Angie, Ava, Fletcher

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" You go on in the house and change them shoes like Mama told you so we can go to Papa's funeral."
- Zam, Beverly, Nate, Mac, Alex
pg.100

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"i need something that gonna help me get out of bed in the morning. make me feel like i belong in the world." pg 18- Ava, Fletcher, Ansel, Angie

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"Got up here and found out... not only couldn't you get a job... you couldn't find no place to live. I thought I was in freedom." p 54
Nick, Cait, Jennifer, Logan

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All right... Mr. Death. See now...I’m gonna tell you what I’m gonna do. I’m gonna take and build me a fence around this yard. See? I’m gonna build me a fence around what belongs to me. And then I want you to stay on the other side. See? You stay over there until you’re ready for me. Then you come on. Bring your army. Bring your sickle. Bring your wrestling clothes. I ain’t gonna fall down on my vigilance this time. You ain’t gonna sneak up on me no more. When you ready for me...when the top of your list say Troy Maxson...that’s when you come around here. You come up and knock on the front door. Ain’t nobody else got nothing to do with this. This is between you and me. Man to man. You stay on the other side of that fence until you ready for me. Then you come up and knock on the front door. Anytime you want. I’ll be ready for you.

pg. 77
Tara Varada Julia Daniel Erika

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" I do the best I can do. I come in here come in here every Friday. I carry a sack of potatoes and a bucket of lard. You all line up at the front door with your hands open. I give you the lint from my pocket. I give you my sweat and blood. I ain't got no tears." p.40
Grace, Nimra, Noelle, Jenna.

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Gabriel- "Hey, Rose. It's time to tell St. Peter to open the gates." pg 100
Ansel, Ava, Angie, Fletcher

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"I owe a responsibility to you! Lets get this straight right here... before it go along any further... I aint got to like you" David, Olivia, Nikitha, Ariana

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"I don't want him to be like me! I want him to move as far away from my life as he can get."
Troy: pg 39
Olivia, Ariana, David Nikitha

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"Okay, Troy...you're right. I'll take care of your baby for you...cause...like you say...she's innocent...and you can't visit the sins of the father upon the child. A motherless child has got a hard time."-pg 79
Jenna, Nimra, Noelle, and Grace

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Lyons: "I know i got to eat. But i got to live too. I need something that gonna help me to get out of the bed in the morning. Make me feel like I belong in the world. I don't bother nobody. I just stay with my music cause that's the only way I can find to live in the world. Otherwise there ain't no telling what I might do. Now I don't come criticizing you and how you live. I just come by to ask you for ten dollars. I don't wanna hear all that about how I live."
-Nate, Beverly, Alex, Mac, Zam
Page 18

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"I didn't want to make my blessings off of no body's misfortune . .but I took on to Raynell like she was all them babies I had wanted and never had." - Tara, Julia, Varada, Erika, Daniel

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"If you got a white fellow sitting on the bench...you can bet your last dollar he can't play! The colored guy got to be twice as good before he get on the team. That's why I don't want you to get all tied up in them sports. Man on the team and what it get him? They got colored on the team and don't use them. Same as not having them. All them teams the same."
Beverly, Nate, Alex, Zam, Mac
Page 34 (Troy)

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"Its my job. Its my responsibility! You understand that? A man gotta take of his family." David, Olivia, Nikitha, Ariana

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"Don't care what color you were.  Come telling me I come along too early.  If you could play... then they ought to have let you play" (about  African Americans playing sports)
-Troy Page 10
Julia, Erika, Daniel, Tara, Varada

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"I get good grades, Pop. That's why the recruiter wants to talk with you. You got up your grades to get recruited. This way I'll be going to college. I'll get a chance. p36
Grace, Nimra, Noelle, Jenna

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"Ok Troy...you're right. I'll take care of your baby for you...cause...like you say...she's innocent...and you can't visit the sins of the father upon the child."
Rose: pg 79
Olivia, Ariana, David, Nikitha

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"You think white fellas got sense enough to drive a truck. That aint no paper job! Hell anybody can drive a truck. How come you got all whites driving and colored lifting?" David, Olivia, Nikitha, Ariana

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"I've been standing with you! I been right here with you, Troy. I got a life too. I gave eighteen years of my life to stand in the spot with you. Don't you think I ever wanted other things?"-pg 70

Genna, Nimra, Noelle, and Grace

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"I was hitting .432 with thirty seven home runs! Man batting .269 and playing right field for the Yankees!
-Riley Benefiel
Act 1, Tr

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"I can't taste nothing. Helluljah!" -pg 89 Ava, Ansel, Angie, and Fletcher

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'I'm gonna be a daddy. I’m gonna be somebody's daddy."
-Megan McDaniel

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"You stand there all healthy and grown talking about how you ain't going to your daddy's funeral?"
Pg 96
-Noelle, Jenna, Grace, Nimra

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Whatever was between you and your daddy...the time has come to put it aside. Just take it and set it over there on the shelf and forget about it.  -Michael  Act 2 Scene 5

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"its time to tell st peter to open the gates. troy, you ready? you ready, troy. im gonna tell st peter to open the gates. you get ready now."- pg 100-  Fletcher, Ava, Ansel, Angie

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"uncle Gabe" -pg 19

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Rose: "And i ain't never wanted no half nothing in my family. My whole family is half. Everybody got different fathers and mothers...my two sisters and my brother. Can't hardly tell who's who. Can't never sit down and talk about Papa and Mama. It's your papa and your mama and my papa and my mama..."
-Nate, Beverly, Alex, Mac, Zam
Page 68

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"It's my job. It's my responsibility! You understand that? A man got to take care of his family." pg 38 - Tara, Julia, Varada, Erika, Daniel

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"I cant taste nothing. Hallelujah! I cant taste nothing no more. (Troy assumes a batting posture and begins to taunt death, the fastball in the outside corner.)  Come on!  It's between you and me now! Come on! Anytime you want!  Come on!  I be ready for you...  but I aint gonna be easy.
Pg 89 Nick, Logan, Caitlin, Jennifer

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"I can't taste nothing. Helluljah! I can't taste nothing no more. (TROY assumes a batting posture and begins to taunt Death) "
Troy: pg 89
Olivia, Ariana, David, Nikitha

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"A man got to take care of his family. You live in my house... sleep you behind on my deb clothes... fill you belly up with my food... cos you my son."
Pg 90
-Jenna, Noelle , grace , Nimra

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"Don't you think i ever wanted other things? Don't you think i had dreams and hopes? What about my life? What about me?" David, Olivia, Nikitha, Ariana

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"He finishes his dance and the gates of heaven  stand open as wide as God's closet"
-Megan McDaniel

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"Troy, I can't live like this. I won't live like this." pg. 74
Alex, Mac, Beverly, Nate, Zam

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"But I held on to you, Troy. I took all my feelings, my wants and needs, my dreams... and I buried them inside you."
Rose: pg 71
Olivia, Ariana, David, Nikitha

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"some times i wish i hadn't known my daddy. he aint cared nothing about no kids. a kid to him wasnt nothing." pg 50- Ansel, Ava, Angie, Fletcher

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"The descendants of African slaves were offered no such welcome or participation."
Pg    THE PLAY
-Noelle, Jenna , Grace, Nimra

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"You took Uncle Gabe's money he got from the army to buy this house and then you put him out." - page 87
Mac, Nate, Alex, Beverly, Zam

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Rose: "How long you say you been paying this ten dollars a month?"
Troy: "Fifteen years!" p 16
Logan, Nick, Cait, Jennifer

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"Why, Troy? Why?After all these years to come dragging this in to me now. It don't make no sense at your age" page 67
Erika, Tara,Julia Varada, Daniel

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"Why? Why they got the white mens driving and the colored .... Hell anyone can drive a truck"
- Riley Benefiel
Act 1, Troy

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Troy: "Alright... Mr. Death... Bring your army. Bring your sickle. Bring your wrestling clothes. I ain't gonna fall down on my vigilance this time. You ain't gonna sneak up on me no more."
- Nate, Beverly, Alex, Mac, Zam
Page 77

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"I held on to you, Troy.  I took all my feelings, my wants and needs,my dreams... and I buried them inside you" -Rose  Page 71
-Julia, Daniel, Erika, Varada, Tara

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"Sometimes I wish I hadn't known my daddy. He ain't cared nothing about no kids. A kid to him wasn't nothing. All he wanted was for you to learn how to walk so he could start you to working. When it come time for eating... he ate first. If there was anything left over, that's what you got. Man would sit down and eat two chickens and give you the wing."- Troy (pg. 50)
~Varada, Julia, Daniel, Erica, Tara