Cicely Tyson movie quotes

“Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They´re what make the instrument stretch - what makes you go beyond the norm.”
Cicely Tyson

“- Joe: I've got Viagra.
- Myrtle: Oh yeah? Well I’ve got mace.”
Tyler Perry - Joe
Cicely Tyson - Myrtle

“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

“When somebody hurts you they take power over you, if you don't forgive them, then they keeps the power.”
Cicely Tyson - Myrtle

“A lady always knows when to leave.”
Cicely Tyson - Sipsey

- Myrtle: That’s what he said “Peace be still”.
- Madea: Well, you know what? Peace is always still around me ‘cause I keeps me what they call “a piece of steel”. As long as you’ve got a piece of steel you gonna have peace. Load your steel! Thank you Jesus!
Cicely Tyson - Myrtle
Tyler Perry - Madea

“Family reunions are about uniting the family, bringing together the young and old. Singing and dancing and thanking God, giving Him the glory. Thanking him for getting us over.”
Cicely Tyson - Myrtle

“- Vivian Perry: Listen, we got an emergency. three of the kids just run off.
- Joe Braxton: Great! Maybe the rest of them will run away.”
Cicely Tyson - Vivian Perry
Richard Pryor - Joe Braxton

“I want every single one of you, young man, young woman, turn to the next person standing alongside of you. Grab them and hug them and tell them that you love 'em.”
Cicely Tyson - Myrtle

“The man and woman who were born here gave birth to this generation. They were slaves. They worked this ground, but they bought it from the widow of the slave owner and that's the kind of blood we have running - though - our veins.”
Cicely Tyson - Myrtle

“Secret's in the sauce.”
Cicely Tyson - Sipsey

“- Madea: He hit me... and I didn't even know how mad I was until I saw him in his casket, he's eight feet under.
- Myrtle: Six feet, that's how they bury people, Madea, six feet under.
- Madea: That's what I'm trying to say, I thought I was over what he did to me until I saw him at the funeral, I was so mad I beat him down two more feet.”
Tyler Perry - Madea
Cicely Tyson - Myrtle