Loretta Devine credited as playing...
Marguerite Slocumb
- Charisse Slocumb: My husband done did it with that child in the Shopwell parking lot? Lord, Take me now!
- [falls to the floor screaming in hysterics]
- Marguerite Slocumb: Don't nobody mind her, she just likes attention.
- Marguerite Slocumb: It's 7 in the morning, why aren't you out looking for a job?
- Royce: I'm not out looking for a job because IT'S 7 IN THE MORNING!
- Marguerite Slocumb: Welfare? That's your plan?
- Royce: [smokes a cigarette] Yep, that's about it.
- Marguerite Slocumb: Well you know what I say to that?
- [hits Royce with her Bible]
- Marguerite Slocumb: [to Charisse] You think you're the only one with heartache? You think you're the only one with problems? I got a boy in the penitentiary and another one on the way! You don't see me huddled up on the floor or hiding in somebody's closet!