- Miss Nina: [singing] Believe it or not, Hot or cold, Cold or hot, Everything that I've got belongs to you, Anytime that I was kissed, I would never resist, But my lips, they insist, they belong to you, Now, I'm no front door woman, With no backdoor man...
- 1st Child with Nina: What is that, Miss Nina?
- Miss Nina: Now, listen, Gates, you run along and chase yourself. This pie ain't ready yet?
- 2nd Child with Nina: Well, what kind of pie is that, Miss Nina?
- Miss Nina: That's a blackbird pie.
- 1st Child with Nina, 2nd Child with Nina: A blackbird pie?
- 1st Child with Nina: There ain't no such thing as a blackbird pie.
- Miss Nina: Why, don't you contradict me. Don't you remember that song I used to sing fer ya, when you were little pickaninnies?
- [singing]
- Miss Nina: Nina's place is in the kitchen, Here's the reason why, 'Cause the master says it takes a blackbird, To make the sweetest kind a pie...
- Eubie Blake: [singing] I'll be glad when you all is dead, You rascals you.
- The Band: Oh, yeah?
- Eubie Blake: Yes, I'll be glad when you all is dead, You rascals you.
- The Band: Says who?
- Eubie Blake: When you is dead, it will be grand, because I'll get myself another band, And I'll be glad when you all is dead, You rascals you.