Sparkle (1976)

Lonette McKee: Sister

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• 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.

• Delores : Why do you keep on doing that to your hair?

  Sister : It wouldn't hurt you to get a little glamour, honey. You don't see no kink on Miss Marilyn "S-for-Sexy" Monroe, do you?

  Delores : Marilyn Monroe is a cracker. If you keep on doing that to your hair - it's not natural. It's not natural.

• Levi : Goddamn, baby. I get you this car and I tell you how crazy I am about you. And what more do you want?

  Sister : I want the big time.

  Levi : Well, you're sittin' right next to it.

• 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 : They would have no type of act without that chick. She was fine. She was fine.

• Sister : [singing]  And when we touch

  Sister , Sparkle , Delores : Our hearts move at a steady pace

  Sparkle , Delores : Oh, oh, yeah

  Sister : I'm tryin' hard not to show

  Sister , Sparkle , Delores : The blushin' over my face

  Sister : Ooh baby, you bring out the woman in me...

• 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...

• Delores : You gonna let that nigga kill you?

  Sister : It ain't nothin' a little makeup can't cover.