Whoopi Goldberg credited as playing...
Odessa Cotter
- Odessa Cotter: Miss Thompson, I don't want your children to grow up scared of mine.
- Miriam Thompson: It's just that a lot of the whites are scared. I'm a little scared.
- Odessa Cotter: We're all scared. What's scarin' you Miss Thompson, who you are, or what Mr. Thompson wants you to be?