Black Cake
Wednesdays on HuluBenny Bennett Quotes
Byron: What are you saying? That you don't want kids, or that you don't want kids with me?
Lynette: I'm saying that I don't know.
Byron: So, what have we been doing all of these years? Playing house?
Benny: You are actually Black and Chinese, so you can tell them to fuck off now.
Mabel: Yes, I suppose I can. It hasn't really sunk in yet.
Benny: I always thought that I was living in your shadow, but it wasn't about that. She was comparing me to her.
Byron: How could she compare you with this other person who wasn't even in her life?
Benny: She was comparing me to a fantasy of her, which is even worse.
You don't own me or my body or my art or my talent, but you got in my head and convinced me that you did. You convinced me that I was weak for loving my family, and now, my mother is dead, and I will never get to say the things that I should've said to her, and I will never get to ask her the questions that I should've asked her because you robbed me of that chance you manipulative lying piece of shit, but not anymore because I'm done.
Steve: Have you ever worn your hair any other way?
Benny: Like how?
Steve: I don't know, more feminine.
How could ma have had Bunny in her life? How could she have gone through so much with her and let Dad be so judgmental with me?
Benny: You are a great listener.
Charles: I'm a lawyer. It's my job.
Benny: Is that all this is to you? A job?
