Elzora: Some things are better left unsaid.
Mozelle Batiste Delacroix: I paid you a dollar, old woman. Now tell my fortune.
Elzora: I don't need no cat bones to tell your fortune, Mozelle Batiste. You are a curse. The Black Widow. Next man that marries you is a dead man. Like the others. Always be that way.
Louis Batiste: Men fought for the privilege of saying her name.
Louis Batiste: To a certain type of woman, I am a hero. I need to be a hero.
Mozelle Batiste Delacroix: ...if you get careless again with your momma's feelings, I swear I'll do you harm. You understand me?
Eve Batiste: Mama keeps stabbing herself in the kitchen! Show her your hands, Mama.
Roz Batiste: I think you'd better hush.
Eve Batiste: And where Daddy? He's never home. He's supposed to be home sometimes.
Roz Batiste: Listen, you little ingrate. Your father works hard so we can have a house with four bathrooms.
Eve Batiste: Not every night he's working, I know he's not.
Roz Batiste: Which one of your patients you going to see, Louis?
Louis Batiste: Woman, go get your palm read and let me do my work.
