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17 Cards in this Set
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WALTER: We one group of men tied to a race of women with small minds!
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B: I am going to start timing those people.
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WALTER: You should get up earlier.
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B: Really - would you suggest the dawn? Where's the paper?
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WALTER: You a horrible looking chick at this hour.
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B: Good morning, everybody.
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WALTER: How is school coming along?
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B: Lovely. Lovely. And you know, biology is the greatest. I dissected something that looked just like you yesterday.
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WALTER: I was just wondering if you've made up your mind and everything.
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B: And what did I answer yesterday morning - and the day before that?
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RUTH: Don't be so nasty, Bennie.
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B: And the day before that and the day before that!
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WALTER: I'm interested in you. Something wrong with that? Ain't many girls who decide -
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B: "To be a doctor."
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WALTER: Have we figured out yet just exactly how much medical school is going to cost?
RUTH: Walter Lee, why don't you leave that girl alone and get out of here to work? |
B: Come on out of there, please!
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WALTER: You know the check is coming tomorrow.
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B: That money belongs to Mama, Walter, and it's for her to decide how she wants to use it. I don't care if she wants to buys a house or a rocketship or just nail it up somewhere and look at it. It's hers. Not ours -- hers.
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WALTER: Now ain't that fine! You just got your mother's interest at heart, ain't you, girl? You such a nice girl - but if Mama got that money she can always take a few thousand and help you through school too - can't she?
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B: I have never asked anyone around here to do anything for me!
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WALTER: No! And the line between asking and just accepting when the time come is big and wide -- ain't it!
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B: What do you want from me, Brother -- that I quit school or just drop dead, which!
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WALTER: I don't want nothing but for you to stop acting holy 'round here. Me and Ruth done made some sacrifices for you -- why can't you do something for the family?
RUTH: Walter, don't be dragging me in it. WALTER: ...thank you, Travis, for wearing the same pair of shoes for two semesters -- |
B: Well -- I do -- all right? -- thank everybody! And forgive me for ever wanting to be anything at all! FORGIVE ME, FORGIVE ME, FORGIVE ME!
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RUTH: Please stop it! Your mama'll hear you.
WALTER: Who the hell told you you had to be a doctor? If you so crazy 'bout messign 'round with sick people -- then go be a nurse like other women -- or just get married and be quiet... |
B: Well -- you finally got it said... It took you three years but you finally got it said. Walter, give up; leave me alone -- it's Mama's money.
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WALTER: He was my father, too!
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B: So what? He was mine, too -- and Travis' grandfather -- but the insurance money belongs to Mama. Picking on me is not going to make her give it to you to invest in any liquoe stores -- and I for one say, God bless Mama for that!
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WALTER: See -- did you hear? Did you hear!
RUTH: Honey, please go to work. WALTER: Nobody in this house is ever going to understand me. |
B: Because you're a nut.
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WALTER: Who's a nut?
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B: You -- you are a nut. Thee is mad, boy.
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WALTER: The world's most backward race of people, and that's a fact.
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B: And then there are all those prophets who would lead us out of the wilderness -- into the swamps!
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