Lonette McKee credited as playing...
Sister
- Sister: [after Delores and Sparkle discover her drug addiction] Can't you see? Sister can't fly on only one wing.....
- Sister: Theatrical makeup is terrible for my face, Momma.
- Effie: [Effie sees the bruises on Sister's face] Sister.
- [Effie turns Sister's face with her hands]
- Effie: Baby. He's just going to drag you... to the gutter...
- Sister: The...
- Effie: ...with him.
- Sister: ...gutter?
- Effie: Um-hum.
- Sister: How can you say that? He's as big time as you can get.
- Effie: I've lived in Harlem all my life. I do know a rat when I see one.
- Sister: You don't understand, Momma, you don't understand.
- Effie: Well... I've said my piece. I'm going home.
- Sister: Ain't nothin' wrong with messin', anyway. Just make sure whoever you're messin' with stops down to the drugstore first and takes care of some business. You hear me? Don't come around here with no big belly, cryin', talkin' about you didn't know what you was supposed to do.
- Sister, Sparkle, Delores: [singing] And now you jump, We're gonna shake a little funk, You're doing fine, And now you're right on time, Have a ball, I hope my mama don't call, Know the rules, We're gonna keep it in the groove, Baby, you're all for me, Cause your moving just sets me free, I love the way you party hard, Don't want nothing to tear us apart, Tell you now, I ain't too proud too beg, Hope my partner loves to shake a leg...
- Sister, Sparkle, Delores: [singing] Living in a world of ghetto life
- Sister: Everyone seems so uptight, But, nothing's wrong
- Sparkle, Delores: Nothing's wrong
- Sister: And it's alright
- Sparkle, Delores: It's alright
- Sister: With my man
- Sparkle, Delores: My man
- Sister: I like the ways we have our fun, His loving ways send me on and on, With my man
- Sister, Sparkle, Delores: People out there can understand, I'm giving him something he can feel...