Nunnally Johnson

Famous quotes by nunnally johnson:

“I don’t give a hoot in a hollow if there’s oranges and grapes a-crowdin’ us out of bed, I ain’t goin’ to California! This is my country and I belong here. This is my dirt. It’s no good, but it’s mine.”
—Nunnally Johnson (1897–1977)

“I’m right here to tell you, mister. There ain’t nobody gonna push me off my land. My grandpa took up this land seventy years ago. My pa was born here. We was all born on it. And some of us was killed on it. And some of us died on it. That’s what makes it ourn. Bein’ born on it. And workin’ on it. And dyin’ on it. And not no piece of paper with writin’ on it.”
—Nunnally Johnson (1897–1977)

“Al: Ain’t you gonna look back, Ma? Give the old place a last look?
Ma Joad: We’re goin’ to California, ain’t we? Alright then, let’s go to California.
Al: That don’t sound like you, Ma. You never was like that before.
Ma Joad: I never had my house pushed over before. Never had my family stuck out on the road. I never had to lose everything I had in life.”
—Nunnally Johnson (1897–1977)

“Scared, huh. I ain’t never gonna be scared no more. I was though. For a while it looked as though we was beat, good and beat. Looked like we didn’t have nobody in the whole wide world but enemies. Like nobody was friendly no more. Made me feel kind a bad and scared too. Like we was lost and nobody cared.”
—Nunnally Johnson (1897–1977)

“Them Oakies got no sense and no feeling. They ain’t human. No human being wouldn’t live the way they do. A human being couldn’t stand it to be so miserable.”
—Nunnally Johnson (1897–1977)