Good Trouble
Tuesdays 10:00 PM on FreeformGood Trouble Season 1 Quotes
Stef and Lena, you raised a very impressive woman. I hope you're proud of her because you have every right to be.
Wilson
Evan: Good job. Mariana, can you stay? Angela, Josh you too. I'm confused about something. Mariana, you appear to be very motivated, so when I agreed to hear your new app pitch, why didn't you follow up?
Mariana: Well, um, Angela was correct to point out that I should be more respectful of your time.
Evan: Who told you to point that out?
Angela: I, uh, was told to give Mariana a heads up to protocol by Josh.
Evan: I see.
Josh: OK, look, if every employee wanted to pitch an app got a meeting that's all you'd do.
Evan: That's my call! This is my company. Mariana, my assistant will set up an appointment with you next week I will hear your pitch.
Mariana: OK, thank you.
Evan: Angela, do not admonish employees who want access to me, and Josh, I've decided to pitch the app myself.
I'm not ghosting you. I'm breaking my rule because something tells me you're worth it.
Joey
Malika: Here's to Jamal because if you don't want to kiss my big black lips, you can kiss my big black ass. My big black ass gone fight for your big black life. Who raised you, Jamal?
Everyone: A black woman!
Malika: Who fighting for you right now?
Everyone: A black woman.
Libby: Well I'm glad we can do this; my husband is quite fond of Callie.
Mariana: I highly doubt that.
They managed to find cause to excuse six black jurors and then they used one of their peremptory strikes against the one black juror they couldn't find cause to excuse. I don't see why Jamal's attorney didn't raise a Batson Challenge.
Callie
Mariana: I think that we should add a race column to the spreadsheet to plan that gender isn't the only discriminatory system.
Coworker 1: Personally, I always thought we were fighting for ALL women, so is that column really necessary?
Mariana: Well yeah, not when some of us are getting left behind.
Coworker 2: A hundred percent, but shouldn't we address the gender pay gap first and then race? We don't want to confuse things.
Casey: I agree; one issue at a time.
Callie: How are you feeling about Jamal?
Malika: Well, what Jamal said isn't anything new. It isn't anything I didn't think about myself when I was a kid. You don't know what it's like to be a kid and not see yourself on TV or in books. And the little I did see, it took me a long time to see myself as worthy or valuable. Jamal never got there. He hated black women because he hated himself.
Callie: Aren't you mad?
Malika: Yeah, I'm always mad. And I'm always disappointed, and tired, and frustrated, and I wish that I didn't have to organize a protest for someone who couldn't see the beauty in his own people. I have to. I have to be there for everyone because we all should be there for each other.
Callie: Who's there for you?
Why are you being so hostile?
Sumi
Meera Why are you licking Alice's ass?
Davia: I just don't understand why you'd work so hard for someone who thought so little of you.
Housemate: Would you still march for a white guy who said those things?
Malika: If he was unjustly gunned down by the police yeah I'd still think he deserves justice. Or do you think Jamal deserved what he got?
Davia: No of course not.
Malika: OK so the point is you don't get it
Davia: Well then explain it to me.
Malika: Why? Why is it up to me to explain to all of my white friends? You went to Brown, Davia. Pick up a book! Do some research.
How am I supposed to handle you when you won't let me know how? I love an independent woman, but there is such a thing as being independent to a fault. You don't have to do everything alone.
Isaac
Lena: I would never do anything that affects us without you.
Stef: You already are, Lena. It honestly feels like she's your partner in this. Campaigning together and strategizing together, and I'm just the wife who has to stand by with her mouth shut if I'm ever asked to stand by because, oh we certainly don't want the former cop wife to scare off the progressives.
Mariana: OK. Let's try to fight fair here.
Stef: And what are these outfits? She's asking you to change your look and straighten your hair?
Callie: Oh, that's definitely not --
Stef: Who are you?
Callie: Fighting fair.
Stef: Run for the office. I want you to, I do. Run for president for all I care. You can do it with Cindy. She can be your partner because I am out.
Mariana: OK, that works so much better when you two are the parents.
