Queen Sugar
Tuesdays 8:00 PM on OWNQueen Sugar Season 6 Episode 1: "If You Could Enter Their Dreaming" Quotes
Prosper: After letting folks around here doing black farmers any old kind of way.
Ralph Angel: Can’t get loans on time, nickel and dime us for everything, bleed us out generation after generation. I think it’s about time we get paid back for some of that trouble. I’ll take some paper justice.
It’s going to be nice to see a little Bordelon running around on this land.
Prosper
Hollywood: So you love your pride more than you love Blue.
Violet: I’m not above killing you in your sleep, Hollywood.
Davis: I want you to be happy, Charley, and I want to make that happen.
Charley: I’m trying to wrap my head around that. I’m trying to trust that.
Davis: I know. It’ll take time, but I’m here for the long haul. Whatever it takes.
Nova: When my audience, my newly expanded audience, reads what one of NOPD’s own has to say about brutality in the department…
Officer Walker: Everyday brutality. Common as a New Orleans flash flood in the springtime. Calvin’s old crew did some damage, but they weren’t the only ones. Not by far.
Violet: You’re a man now. Whatever you’re doing and whoever you’re doing it with is your business, but you best be responsible. Make sure you wrap it because we don’t need no little accidents running around here.
Micah: Yes, Ma’am.
Prosper: When this first happened, it was like the world was saying if you’re old, black, and poor, your life ain’t worth saving. We didn’t matter. A lot of us went to some dark places last year. You’d be surprised the things you begin to believe if somebody starts telling it to you over and over again.
Nova: Well, hear this over and over again, Mr. Prosper. We got you. I got you, no matter what.
Nova: You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Sheriff.
Sheriff Officer: You ought to stop trying to ruin cops’ lives before you ruin your own.
Nova: What’s that supposed to mean?
Sheriff Gudry: It means you’ve got a big mouth. Defund the police? Over my dead body.
