Hurry Sundown

1967

Rose Scott: Sometin's ailin' you, Reeve. Reeve Scott: No, Mama. Rose Scott: Well, sometin's hasn't changed your mood since breakfast. Tell me. Reeve Scott: Mama, you better dan anyo' dat radar dey had out in de Souf Pacific. Rose Scott: I don' know nothin' 'bout radar, but I know when sometin's plaguin' ma chile.

(Rose is expecting Julie to pay her a visit) Rose Scott: Lor' Almighty, there she is! (A black friend enters with her grandfather) Reeve Scott: Shucks. An' we thought it was white folks!

(Rose and Julie converse while Julie's child rests in Rose's arms) Julie Ann Warren: Ah declare, Rose. Ah never saw him take to anyone like he does to you. Rose Scott: Chillun' know who loves 'em. Julie Ann Warren: Oh sometimes, Rose, Ah think you just about invented love.

(The bigoted Judge Purcell rebukes a white lawyer for his help to the black defendant) Judge Purcell: Don't you rattle your skeleton in my court! Your being here at all constitutes a treachery to the entire white community that's too colossal to be believed!

Julie Ann Warren: It wasn't until I was ten years old that I realized that "damn" and "Yankee" were two separate words!

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