"I'll be all around in the dark. I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look, wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there."

"Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready."

"And when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise, and livin' in the houses they build, I'll be there, too."

"Well, maybe it's like Casy says. A fella ain't got a soul of his own, just a little piece of a big soul, the one big soul that belongs to everybody."

"Then it don't matter."

"How am I gonna know about ya, Tommy? Why they could kill ya and I'd never know. They could hurt ya. How am I gonna know?"

"Seems like the government's got more interest in a dead man than a live one."

"If there was a law they was workin' with, maybe we could take it, but it ain't the law. They're workin' away our spirits, tryin' to make us cringe and crawl, takin' away our decency."

"That Casy. He might have been a preacher but he seen things clear. He was like a lantern. He helped me to see things clear."

"Sure don't look none too prosperous."

"Takes no nerve to do something, ain't nothin' else you can do."

"They won't. They're gettin' five now. That's all they care about."

"The five they're gettin' now. That's all they're interested in. I know exactly what Pa'd say. He'd say it's none of his business."

"We was out of food. Tonight we had meat, not much, but we had it. You think Pa's gonna give up his meat on account of some other fellas?"

"Rosasharn needs milk. You think Ma's gonna starve that baby just on account of fellas yellin' outside a gate?"

"I been thinking about us, too, about our people living like pigs and good rich land layin' fallow. Or maybe one guy with a million acres and a hundred thousand farmers starvin'."

"And I been wonderin' if all our folks got together and yelled..."

"No, Ma, not that. That ain't it. It's just, well as long as I'm an outlaw anyways... maybe I can do somethin'..."

"Maybe I can just find out somethin', just scrounge around and maybe find out what it is that's wrong and see if they ain't somethin' that can be done about it."

"I ain't thought it out all clear, Ma. I can't. I don't know enough."

"OK, Ma. I shouldn't, I know I shouldn't, but OK."

"Say, what is all this here?"

"You sure do wanna make ya feel at home here, all right."

"I wouldn't pray just for an old man that's dead, 'cause he's all right. If I was to pray, I'd pray for folks that's alive and don't know which way to turn."

"Tom, you gotta learn like I'm learnin'. I don't know it right yet myself. That's why I can't ever be a preacher again. Preachers gotta know. I don't know. I gotta ask."

"Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain't so nice, and that's all any man's got a right to say."

"I lost the spirit. I got nothin' to preach about no more, that's all. I ain't so sure of things."

"But the moment they ain't strike-breakin', they won't get no five..."

"One ton of peaches picked and carried for a dollar. That way, you can't even buy enough food to keep ya alive."

"Listen, you fellas. You don't know what you're doin'. You're helpin' to starve kids."

"They figgured that I'm the leader cause I talk so much."

"Well, Pa, a woman can change better'n a man. A man lives sorta - well, in jerks. Baby's born or somebody dies, and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it, and that's a jerk."

"With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream - little eddies and waterfalls - but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it thata way."

"Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good an' they die out. But we keep a'comin'. We're the people that live."

"They can't wipe us out; they can't lick us. We'll go on forever, Pa, 'cause we're the people."

"We're going' to California, ain't we? All right then let's go to California."

"I never had my house pushed over before. Never had my family stuck out on the road. Never had to lose everything I had in life."

"Did they hurt ya, son? Did they hurt ya and make ya mean mad?"

"Sometimes they do somethin' to ya. They hurt ya and ya get mad and then ya get mean. Then they hurt ya again and ya get meaner and meaner til you ain't no boy nor man anymore, just a walkin' chunk of mean mad."

"Did they hurt ya that way son? Why, I don't want no mean son."

"Tom, there's a whole lot I don't understand. But goin' away ain't gonna ease us."

"There was a time we was on the land. There was a boundary to us then. Old folks died off and little fellars come. We was always one thing. We was the family. Kind of whole and clear."

"But now we ain't clear no more. There ain't nothin' that keeps us clear. Al - he's a-hankerin' to be off on his own and Uncle John's just draggin' around."

"Your Pa's lost his place, he ain't the head no more. We're crackin' up, Tom. We ain't no family now."

"And Rosesharn - she's gonna have her baby, but it won't have no family. I've been a-tryin' to keep her goin' but... and Winfield, what's he gonna be this a-way? Grown up wild, and Ruthie too! Just like animals. Got nothin' to trust."

"Don't go, Tom. Stay and help! Help me!"

"They say they got posses out. Talkin' about a lynchin' when they catch the fella."

"I wished ya didn't do it, but ya done what ya had to do."

"Well, they charge extra at that company store and there ain't no other place."

"Don't you go stickin' your nose in anything."

"Ain't you gonna look back, Ma? Give the ol' place a last look?"

"That don't sound like you, Ma. You never was like that before."

"I think I'll look around and see if I can't meet me a girl."

"There ain't nobody gonna push me off my land! My grandpa took up this land 70 years ago, my pa was born here, we were all born on it."

"And some of us was killed on it! ...and some of us died on it. That's what make it our'n, bein' born on it,...and workin' on it,...and dyin' on it!"

"And not no piece of paper with the writin' on it!"

"Everybody's got to get off. Everybody's leavin', goin' out to California. Your folks, my folks, everybody's folks."

"The dusters. They start it anyways. Blowin' like this year after year. Blowin' the land away. Blowin' the crops away. And blowin' us away now."

"There wasn't nothin' to eat, but I couldn't leave. Somethin' just wouldn't let me. So now I just wander around and sleep wherever I am."

"I used to tell myself that I was lookin' out for things, so that when the folks come back everything'd be all right. But I know'd it wasn't true. There ain't nothin' to look out fer. There ain't nobody ever comin' back."

"They're gone! And me, I'm just an old graveyard ghost. That's all in the world I am."

"I smell spare ribs. Somebody's been eatin' spare ribs. How come I ain't got none?"

"Wanna work?"

"Sure, but what is this?"

"None of your business. Name?"

"Joad."

"How many men?"

"Four."

"Women?"

"Two."

"Kids?"

"Two."

"Can you all work?"

"Sure, I guess so. House 63. Wages five cents a box. No bruised fruit. Move along. You can go to work right away."

"Name?"

"Joad. Say, what is all this here?"

"Joad. Not here. License?"

"Oklahoma EL 204. Don't check. Now you look here. We don't want no trouble with ya. Jes' do your own work and mind your business and you'll be all right."

"Now, do you want to walk back or shall I whistle up some help and have you taken back?"

"He'll have a trademark he won't be able to get rid of in a hurry."

"Aw, shut up, you dirty..."

"You and me got sense. Them Okies got no sense and no feeling. They ain't human. Human being wouldn't live the way they do. Human being couldn't stand to be so miserable."

"A lot of children play in here. You can tell people to drive slow and they're liable to forget, but once they hit that hump, they don't forget."

"Number Four Sanitary Unit... Toilet, showers, washtubs."

"No cops, no, people here elect their own cops. The ladies' committee will call on you, m'am, to tell ya about the children, the schools, and sanitary unit, and who takes care of..."

"Oh, Tommy, they'd drag you out and cut you down just like they done to Casy."

"They'd drag me anyways. Sooner or later they'd get me for one thing if not for another. Until then..."

"Tommy, you're not aimin' to kill nobody."

"Guess that's right. You'll have to take a beatin' before you'll know."

"I don't know what's right yet, myself, but I'm tryin' to find out. That's why I can't ever be a Preacher again. Preacher's gotta know. I don't know. I gotta ask."

"Then what, Tom?"

"Me, neither, Ma, but - just somethin' I been thinkin' about."

"I don't understand it, Tom."

"That isn't the way they're tellin' it. They're sayin' you done it first."

"They killed Casy first."

"Do they know what the fella looks like?"

"They know he got hit in the face."

"You mean that hitchhiker? The little short fella with a pale-face? We just picked him up on the way in. He left this morning when the rate dropped."

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