Imitation of Life (1959)

Susan Kohner: Sarah Jane (18)

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• [Sarah Jane enters carrying a serving tray on her head] 

  Sarah Jane : [affected Southern Negro accent]  Fetched y'all up a mess 'a crawdads, Miss Lora... fo' you an' yo' friends!

  Lora : Well, that's quite a trick, Sarah Jane... where did you learn it?

  Sarah Jane : [affected Southern Negro accent]  Oh, 'tain't no trick ta' totin', Miss Lora! I learned it from my mammy, an' she learned it from ol' massa, 'fo' she belonged to you...

• Showgirl : So, honeychile, you had a mammy!

  Sarah Jane : Yes. All my life.

• Sarah Jane : Miss Lora, you don't know what it means to be... different...

• Sarah Jane : [to mother Annie]  I wouldn't be caught dead in a colored teachers' college!

• Sarah Jane : I'm someone else. I'm white... white... WHITE!

• Annie : I'd be happy knowin' you're meetin' nice young folk...

  Sarah Jane : Busboys! Cooks! Chauffeurs!

  [Hmph] 

  Sarah Jane : Like Hawkins. No thank you; I've seen your "nice young folk".

  Annie : I don't wanna fight with you, honey. Not tonight. I don't feel too good. While I get started on the anchovies, will you take this tray in to Miss Lora and her friends?

  Sarah Jane : [sarcastic]  Why, certainly. Anything at all for Miss Lora and her friends.