- Hannibal Heyes: Just tell me one thing. Why are you so all fired ornery?
- Joe Sims: Nothin' I can do about that. Some black folks, ya know, figure they owe white folks a lotta harm fo rall what they done. I don't feel that way. I don't feel I owe 'em any harm. I don't feel I owe 'em anything else, either. I guess that's why I don't know nothin' about gratitude. It been taken outta me a long time ago.
- Hannibal Heyes: That's sad, Joe. That's a sad way to be.
- Joe Sims: I guess...