Queen Sugar
Tuesdays 8:00 PM on OWNQueen Sugar Season 5 Episode 7: "June 1, 2020" Quotes
Darla: We do what we can to bring some beauty into this ugly world.
Ralph Angel: Ugly? Ain’t nothing ugly over here. I mean, we look good. We beautiful, all of us.
Darla: Amen.
I’ve been a little tough on her and Calvin. I mean, time’s up for polite conversations to soothe white folks fantasies of the world the rest of us have to live in, but you’ve got to give them a chance to grow.
Nova
The youth get wisdom by engaging with things that matter. At least that’s what Micah said before he left.
Charley
So tomorrow, Blue, we’re marching so that what happened to Mr. Floyd doesn’t happen to anyone else, especially people who look like us.
Darla
Darla: He’s 10. His world has to be better than this, and always. We have to make sure that happens, okay?
Ralph Angel: Always.
Ain’t nobody okay right now, truth be known. And Hollywood, he’s in a bad place over Willa Mae. Emotions, moods all over the place, and I don’t know if I should just leave him be or…
Violet
Courtney: I want to be a good ally. I want to be a good person. I thought I was. I feel like I just keep putting my foot in my mouth. I feel like I don’t know anything.
Nova: You’re feeling all the right things. Look at me. Never feel satisfied. Never feel that you know it all. Stay uncomfortable. Stay pushing yourself. Stay asking questions, stay listening. Stay trying. That’s what it means to be a good ally, a good person.
Violet: Well, what about The Real Spot? Does that matter? Let’s talk about that.
Hollywood: Ain’t nothing to talk about. Sitting over there empty on a year’s lease with six months left to go. Draining every little bit of my settlement savings. There ain’t shit that I can do about it, so what I’m going to do is sit here, drink this beer, watch this game, which I already know the outcome of, and wait for my beautiful wife, who happens to be a tremendous cook, go and bring me something to eat.
