The Harder They Come (1972)

Lucia White: Mother

Quotes 

• Mother : Why you no bring mango from country?

  Ivan Martin : Mango season bad this year.

• Mother : What you come to town for?

  Ivan Martin : Grandma dead.

  Mother : Dead? Dead? How she can dead and I never know?

  Ivan Martin : We tried to get you, but the telegram came back.

  Mother : And when she going to bury?

  Ivan Martin : She buried already, Momma.

  Mother : Bury already? Buried already and I never get to go to the funeral? Oh, God. Oh, God...

• Mother : What happened to the place?

  Ivan Martin : Grandma sold the place before she died.

  Mother : And what happened to the money?

  Ivan Martin : She said she wanted a big funeral.

  Mother : And she took all the money for her big funeral and I didn't even get to go?

• Ivan Martin : I'm staying in town.

  Mother : You think town is easy? How you gonna live?

  Ivan Martin : I could make a record. I can sing, you know, Momma.

• Ivan Martin : I can get a job, then.

  Mother : What kind of job you can get, outside turn criminal?

  Ivan Martin : Why you say a thing like that? Why you say a think like that about me?

  Mother : Don't ask me any feisty question. Go back to country.