- Julie Ann Warren: It wasn't until I was ten years old that I realized that "damn" and "Yankee" were two separate words!
- 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 than any of that radar they had out in the South 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!