Quotes from Lynn Whitfield movies and TV shows

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.

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.

Josephine Baker: Hollywood wants me to play maids - I have maids of my own.

Josephine Baker: What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.

Josephine Baker: One dance had made me the most famous colored woman in the world.

Josephine Baker: My dear, I know exactly how I'm gonna die: out of breath, exhausted at the end of a dance. And that won't be for a long, long time.

Victoria: My mother was a real whore and a junkie, and she traded me for $10 and a fix.

Vanessa: You are going to rot in hell.
Victoria: I vacation there.

Lisa: He hits me.
Victoria: When?
Lisa: Often.
Victoria: Well, you must stop doing what you're doing to make him angry.
Lisa: What?
Victoria: Women sometimes have to deal with things to be comfortable.

Zoe: These? So good. Try one.
Violet: No thanks.
Zoe: Oh come on, I know you want some.
Pauletta: Excuse me, you're using your outside voice.
Zoe: Excuse me, but we are outside.

Brandi Web: You know, a man just comes along and he buys us off a shelf. Then he plays. Plays with us until he thinks we're no longer fun. Or until he gets us all dirty, right? Then he just wants to throw us away.

Brandi Web: You put your hands on the wrong woman.

Brandi Web: I'm not going to shoot you. Not for myself, no. I'm going to shoot you for all women.

Brandi Web: I don't know what your selling... but I'm not buying.