- Adele Malone: [after receiving an eviction notice] I ought to burn this place to the ground right now.
- Adele Malone: I'm being evicted from my home, and I don't know what to do.
- Father Gannon: Surely you've got relatives... friends?
- Adele Malone: Haven't anybody.
- Father Gannon: I see... Of course you've applied to Welfare.
- Adele Malone: I won't take Welfare. I'm not indigent. I'm not poor. I... I just run out of money.
- Father Gannon: Perhaps one of the women in the parish will take you in... at least for a time.
- Adele Malone: And then what? For thirty-five years, I've haven't missed a Sunday Mass. Every year, Easter duty. A dollar in every collection plate that was passed. And I come to you for help, and you tell me that "some woman in the parish" might take me in for a while?
- Father Gannon: In serious cases, I've been authorized to allocate fifty dollars...
- Adele Malone: I've no place to live!
- Father Gannon: Take the fifty dollars. It's what I can do.
- B.T. Williamson: [after being injected with penicillin] You're damn good with that needle, ya know 'at, White Mama.
- Adele Malone: [talking to B.T. Williamson] You can be anything you want to be, if you're willing to work for it.