Sudie and Simpson (1990 TV Movie)

Louis Gossett Jr.: Simpson

Quotes 

• Sudie Harrigan : I never knowd I was the color of creek sand.

  [Examines the sand for a moment] 

  Sudie Harrigan : Simpson I figured it out!

  Simpson : Figured what out?

  Sudie Harrigan : I'm the color of creek sand and you's the color of garden dirt! And the Indians, they's the color of red clay! Doesn't that make you wanna sing out! Everybody's made out of dust. And God didn't make you black to punish you for nothing. He didn't make nobody nothing to punish them for nothing! He made everybody the color they is on account of that just happen to be the color He was standing on.

  Simpson : Well you sure figured that out didn't you? If that ain't it, I sure don't know what he had in mind!

  [Both laugh out loud] 

  Sudie Harrigan : Wouldn't it be funny if mamma caught God answering her prayers and he turned out to be a negro?

  [Both laugh again] 

• Sudie Harrigan : Got a wife?

  Simpson : She died.

  Sudie Harrigan : Where'd you live when she died?

  Simpson : Alabama. I was from Texas. She's from Alabama. Wanted to live in Alabama. She was a teacher. Helped me to get my high school diploma. At night she was getting ready to have our baby. Put her in the car took her to the hospital. They wouldn't accept no colored folks. So, had the baby in the back of the car. And she died birthing our baby. Three days later, little girl died too.

  Sudie Harrigan : You had a baby?

  Simpson : Yeah. Life can be hard sometimes.

• Sudie Harrigan : I bet if I laid out in the sun everyday, I'd turn into a negro.

  Simpson : How long do you think that'll take?

  Sudie Harrigan : [Thinks for a few seconds]  About a week.

• Simpson : Do you have any idea what'll happen if they catch a little white girl with a colored man?

  Sudie Harrigan : Wouldn't nobody hurt you, I wouldn't let 'em. And ain't nothing gonna happen to me, 'cept I'd get a whippin'. Whippin' ain't nothing, I get those all the time.

  Simpson : Miss Sudie, you can't come back here no more!

  Sudie Harrigan : You ain't my daddy and you ain't my boss. I'll make up my own mind about coming here.

  Simpson : No you can't!

  Sudie Harrigan : Well, I'm coming back! And if you don't want me to then you'll have to whip me. So either way I'm getting a whipping.

  Simpson : I'm never goin' whip you Miss Sudie, but you're stubborn as a mule!