Good Times (TV Series)

A Matter of Mothers (1979)

Ja'net DuBois: Willona Woods

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Quotes 

• Willona Woods : [after Mrs. Gordon tries to hit Penny because she wouldn't give her the tape recorder]  Now, are you going to tell me that all your violence is still in the past?

• Mrs. Gordon : [to Willona about Penny]  Didn't you see the look in that kid's eyes? She wants to come home with me, it's all those expensive gifts, the tape recorder and the $2500 brass bed. What could you possibly offer to top that?

  Willona Woods : Love. And you?

  Mrs. Gordon : I'm here, aren't I?

  Willona Woods : So's the garbage. It don't make no difference.

• Officer Giles : [to Willona and Mrs. Gordon]  Come along, you two.

  Willona Woods : Can't I just stay here and...?

  Officer Giles : I'm afraid not, ma'am, you'll have to...

  Willona Woods : Officer! I'm on the 17th floor. What do you think I'm going to do, fly out the window?

• Mrs. Gordon : [to Willona about Penny]  She is not your daughter.

  Willona Woods : She is too my daughter.

  Millicent 'Penny' Woods : Mama?

  Willona Woods : [along with Mrs. Gordon]  Yes? What?

• Willona Woods : [to Mrs. Gordon about Penny]  That child wakes up at night screaming thinking your abuse, the beatings, the bruises, the cuts, the burns with the hot iron. She ain't gonna forget it. You remember it, I remember it, I hope to God that one day she can finally forget.

• Willona Woods : [to Mrs. Gordon]  You know this proves that money can buy almost everything: lies, deceit, deception. Look, you get your actor and your props out of here before I break your neck.

  Mrs. Gordon : You're not serious.

  Willona Woods : Oh, yes I am. Serious as suicide.

• Willona Woods : [to Mrs. Gordon]  Your plan ain't going to work because I have too many people to back me up. People at my church, people where I work and people in this whole neighborhood.

  Mrs. Gordon : And I have two policemen, pictures and a dozen witnesses who will swear you were throwing a wild party in the presence of a minor. Add an upscale lawyer to that and you tell me who the judge is going to believe.

• Millicent 'Penny' Woods : [hands Mrs. Gordon the tape recorder]  Here, take it.

  Willona Woods : Penny, baby, we need that for evidence.

  Millicent 'Penny' Woods : It doesn't matter!

  [starts to cry] 

  Millicent 'Penny' Woods : No matter what the court says, no matter what she says, no matter what anyone says, I'll always be with you, Mama!

  [hugs Willona]