The White Tiger Quotes
I’m a man of action and change. p. 3
I am tomorrow. p. 4
I’d never been given a name. p. 10
I was born and raised in Darkness. p. 11
Understand, now, how hard it is for a man to win his freedom in India. p. 16
My father was a poor man, but he was a man of honor and courage. p. 19
He [the father] chose to fight it. p. 23
Balram’s father: “My whole life, I have been treated like a donkey. All I want is that one
son of mine - at least one - should live like a man.” p. 26
He [the poster picture of Balram] could be half the men in India. p. 34
Iqbal: They remain slaves because they can’t see what is beautiful in this world. p. 34
I tried many more times, yet I was such a coward that each time I tried to go up, I lost my
nerve and came back. p. 35
I protected his good name when I was his servant, and now that I am (in a sense) his
master, I won’t stop protecting his good name. p. 39
I did my job with near total dishonesty, lack of dedication and insincerity - and so the tea
shop was a profoundly enriching experience. p. 43
The road is a jungle. p. 48
Halwai, my name, means, “sweet-maker.” That’s my caste - my destiny. p. 53
Why was I lean and dark and cunning, and not fat and creamy-skinned and smiling? p. 53
Above all, I got the thing that we who grow up in the Darkness value most of all. A
uniform. p. 57
Kisan had changed....He had become, all of a sudden, my father. p. 73
Ashok: We shouldn’t let him treat us like this anymore - like we’re his slaves. p. 89
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