“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

“- Daisy Werthan: I've never been prejudiced in my life and you know it.
- Boolie Werthan: Okay, then why don't you ask Hoke to go with you?
- Daisy Werthan: Hoke? Don't be ridiculous. He wouldn't go.”

Jessica Tandy - Daisy Werthan
Dan Aykroyd - Boolie Werthan

“- 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