- [Sam and Miz Melny are discussing civil rights issues]
- Miz Melny: Nobody's gonna change the way things are.
- Sam: But they will. Blacks are gonna unite...
- Miz Melny: "Blacks"?
- Sam: Blacks. That's what they'll- That's what we'll be called instead of Negroes.
- Miz Melny: What's in God's name's wrong with being called a Negro?
- Sam: Maybe it's just a little too close to nigger.
- Miz Melny: [sternly] I've *never* used that word, Jesse. Not to your face or behind your back.
- Miz Melny Trafford: [Being attended] What are you doin'?
- Dr. Sam Beckett: I'm just checkin' to see if you're all right.
- Miz Melny Trafford: Since when did you get a medical degree?
- Dr. Sam Beckett: Well, I've done some doctoring in my time.
- Miz Melny Trafford: Well, I'll thank you to please keep your colored voodoo to yourself!
- Nell: You promised to cook chitlins for the church picnic.
- Sam: [narrating] I'd heard of chitlins, of course. I thought they were one of those rare Southern delicacies that taste as good as they sound... I never realized they were pig intestines. The smell was like something that had been kept around too long in autopsy class