- Vernon Gaines: How about a refill?
- Gina Devereaux: No thanks, Mr. Gaines
- Vernon Gaines: Now, I know it's not my place, but it's old folks nature to butt in.
- Gina Devereaux: Mr. Gaines, I've been getting a little too much of that lately.
- Vernon Gaines: Well, I'll make it quick then. Tell you a story about my cousin Ida Mae. We grew up together. Ida Mae was always saying "I don't believe my husband loves me unless he hits me once a week." Well, one day her husband LOVED her to death. And we buried her last year.
- Gina Devereaux: It's not what you think, Whitley. Dion is the sweetest, most romantic guy I've ever gone out with.
- Whitley Marion Gilbert Wayne: So I've heard. He's just nervous about the concert.
- Gina Devereaux: Well, you know how I am - I'm so self-centered and I'm always running off at the mouth, and you know how I flirt.
- Whitley Marion Gilbert Wayne: There's no excuse for what he did to you, Gina. You're much smarter than this.
- Gina Devereaux: But he loves me... and I don't want to break up with him.
- [sniffs]
- Gina Devereaux: I just want him to stop.
- Whitley Marion Gilbert Wayne: Throwing jabs? You're making a big mistake, Gina, if you think you can change that boy.
- Gina Devereaux: Well, I mean, I can try, can't I? Isn't love about sacrifices? I mean, maybe I am being stupid, but I don't even care anymore.
- Whitley Marion Gilbert Wayne: I think you do, Gina. I think you do care. I think you're embarrassed about that black eye. Believe me, I know about sacrifices. But I'd rather sacrifice my relationship than my body... or my spirit.
- Gina Devereaux: Well... that's easy for you to say. You always got somebody.
- Whitley Marion Gilbert Wayne: That's right. And her name is Whitley. Gina, do you really think you need a man that doesn't respect you?
- [removes Gina's glasses and holds her chin upwards, so that she is facing Whitley directly]
- Gina Devereaux: [as tears stream down her face] I better not miss his call.
- [rushes out of the room]
- Freddie Brooks: Before I sign off, allow me to raise your consciousness with a poem by the late Pat Parker. "Brother I don't want to hear about how my real enemy is the system. I'm no genius, but I do know that system you hit me with is called a fist." Stay strong, my sisters. Peace.
- Terrence Taylor: You know, I'm Down, everyone is trippin' off those rumors.
- Dion: They just a bunch of gossipin' girls.
- Terrence Taylor: Yeah, yeah.
- Dion: Look, let me ask you something. You ever hit a woman?
- Terrence Taylor: [scoffs] No.
- Dion: Be straight up.
- Terrence Taylor: Alright, well, once, when I was nine, I hit my cousin Wanda, but that's because she tried to kiss me.
- Dion: Yeah? When I was 14, I saw this guy slappin' around his woman in the middle of the street. So, I jump in, think I'mma help ol' girl. You know what she did? She called the cops on me. Now, I learned two things from that. Number one? Any brother can lose it now and again, know what I'm sayin'? Even my mom used to push my dad to the limit, sometimes. And number two? What happens between a man and a woman is between that man and that woman.
- Terrence Taylor: See, man, I decided, if someone's hittin' a sista, it is my business. Not only do you rap messed-up lyrics, you live by them. But like a sucka, you walk around, and like a sucka, you goin' down!