- Terrence Shye: Need a drink?
- Fauna Hodel: No, thank you. I've seen it change too many people. Starts in laughter, ends in tears.
- Fauna Hodel: Did Jimmy Lee... Did she ever say anything about my... my real mama?
- Big Momma: Jimmy Lee is your real mama. If all you want to talk about is blood, then, no, I don't know nothin' about your adoption. But I know that Jimmy Lee loves you.
- Fauna Hodel: Yeah, I know. And I love her. We just fight so awful.
- Big Momma: Well, everybody fights with Jimmy Lee. She fights the entire world, sugar. But that's just family. That's just life.
- Fauna Hodel: Can you please show me any pictures of Tamar? Or can you at least tell me about her?
- Corinna Hodel: You must understand, Tamar was not my daughter.
- Corinna Hodel: What do you want?
- Fauna Hodel: Well, I was hoping that you could help me to find Tamar. I need your help. Please.
- Corinna Hodel: I'm very sorry to be the one to tell you that... Tamar is deceased.
- Corinna Hodel: You're not mixed-race, ninny. Tamar was always a liar, I told you. She did prefer the Negroes to her own kind, and of course she hated us, her real family.
- Fauna Hodel: Well, who's my father?
- Corinna Hodel: He was a French ballet dancer. Very famous on the Continent. Beautiful. A genius, really.