Queen Sugar
Tuesdays 8:00 PM on OWNQueen Sugar Season 2 Episode 7: "I Know My Soul" Quotes
Nova: It was always the same thing with me and Daddy, it didn't matter what it was. We always found ourselves right back in the same place. You know?
Vi: No, baby, I don't know. You are going to have to let me in.
Nova: When you gonna settle down? Girl, where my grand babies at? Could never seem to just let me be me.
Vi: Well, baby, your Daddy was just doing what father's do. You didn't have to pay that no mind.
Nova: That's what I thought, then Charley gave him one, then Ralph Angel. After that he stopped asking. I thought he was satisfied with who I am, but cutting me out of the farm feels like he's judging me, punishing me.
Charley: Wanting to believe that you are capable of doing all this and actually doing it are two very different things.
Ralph Angel: That's because you two only see my mistakes. You know, me and Pops felt the same way.
Ralph Angel: When they couldn't stand to look at you, I was there. When they treated you like nothing, I stood by you. Why can't you do the same?
Darla: I'm right here.
Ralph Angel: Running off to the mill to help Charley is the same thing as taking her side.
Darla: It's my job.
Ralph Angel: Look, Charley and me, we ain't seeing eye to eye on this thing and I need you to stand by me, please. I ain't got nobody else but you, Darla. You can't go, Darla.
Darla: I can't go? Listen to yourself.
Ralph Angel: Listen to me.
Darla: I went to work for Charley because we needed money. We needed money because I lost my parking lot job, and I lost that job because I missed work to help scrape flies off of your cane. You can see this as betrayal but I see this as love. I would never do to you what you're doing to me right now. Never.
Charley: When I would come down here for the summers, you were the one who made everything okay. I mean, I didn't even have my own room at Daddy's, but you kept one for me here. You always made sure that I felt like I belonged. I wasn't just Daddy's other daughter to you.
Vi: Never.
Charley: That meant a lot. This is the first home that I had here.
Vi: I know that. I remember that.
Charley: But since I got back it's all about Ralph Angel, all day, every day. And no matter what it is, we're just supposed to bend over backwards for him.
Vi: Because you help the people who need help.
Charley: I need help too. Ralph Angel went to prison because he did something to make that happen, but what did I do to deserve what I'm going through, and yet everyone thinks that I'm just…that I should just be okay. I want somebody to fight for me.
Vi: Baby, I'm sorry.
Charley: No disrespect, but how are you going to run the farm if I don't fund it?
Ralph Angel: I'll do what I got to do.
Charley: What's that mean?
Ralph Angel: I'll figure things out, just like Pop did.
Charley: Daddy never figured it all out.
Ralph Angel: Don't talk about Daddy like that.
Charley: I loved him just as much as you. I'm just dealing with what is, not with how I want things to be. I'm talking about specifics. Sooner or later you have to be in the real world.
Ralph Angel: I've been in the real world, Charley.
Charley: I didn't mean…
Ralph Angel: You ain't got to worry about how things are going to get done. I'll do what I need to do. I don't want to be asking you for nothing.
Ra says to trust him when he's proven over and over again that he can't be trusted.
Nova
You're not ready. You don't have the experience, you don't have the means, not by yourself. I think that's why Daddy never filed this letter; he was waiting for you to grow up and show up.
Charley
He was right, I was wrong, but when it counted he was there. Yeah, I lost the land but I got back my freedom, independence, and most important I got my brother back. Frankly, I got the better part of the deal.
Vi
Love always comes first and in the end, choosing the only thing that matters is what matters.
Vi
