“What is it with you people? Every time you see a black woman there has to be a pimp or a john? What? Do you think there's a lot of work down on the pier for hookers? Do you think I'm giving blow jobs down there to goldfish?”

Whoopi Goldberg - Terry Dolittle

“- Matt Drayton: I asked him how he, uh, got so far. You know, he's only 37.
- Christina Drayton: Yeah.
- Matt Drayton: He said he thought he got the best breaks because everybody he met didn't want him to think they were prejudiced against him.”
Spencer Tracy - Matt Drayton
Katharine Hepburn - Christina Drayton

“- Joanna Drayton: He thinks you're gonna faint because he's a Negro.
- Christina Drayton: Well... I don't think I'm going to faint, but I'll sit down anyway.”
Katharine Houghton - Joanna Drayton
Katharine Hepburn - Christina Drayton

“I don't know that nigger. But I know he's a nigger. And that's all I need to know.”
Bruce Dern - General Sandy Smithers

“It don't make no kind of sense. Big old ox like Grady won't sit next to a colored child. But he eats eggs-shoot right outta chicken's ass!”
Cicely Tyson - Sipsey