Hurry Sundown (1967)

Beah Richards: Rose Scott

Quotes 

• 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.