Queen Sugar
Tuesdays 8:00 PM on OWNQueen Sugar Season 3 Episode 2: "Of Their Sojourn Here" Quotes
Remy: So this is you now? Tricking your own people into giving you their business so that you can turn around and give it to the Landrys.
Charley: Or they could just give it to them directly, at a higher percentage. It doesn't matter who really owns the mill as long as the farmers get the break they need.
Remy: I guess it depends on what you're giving up to get it.
Charley: Hey, I'm the good guy here.
Remy: Yet your hands are getting dirty.
Charley: Well if they are that's because that's what happens to people who are actually trying to change things instead of, I don't know, live on the sidelines.
With your mom, everything's logic. Everything. Put together an air tight argument, you might have a shot.
Davis
Steve: Nova, look, you're being labeled a black identity extremist.
Nova: That's a bullshit formulation made up by this administration to criminalize activists.
Steve: The truth is ads have taken a hit since your last article went viral. The critics loved it but we're seeing the effect on the paper's bottom line.
Micah: Mom, you're not even giving me a chance.
Charley: Giving you a chance is all I've ever done, Micah, so I'm not about to throw it all away because you had a good time at a basketball game.
Nova: You;re only human, Aunt Vi.
Violet: I've been only human my whole life. I want to be something else now. I want to be a warrior, like your mama, like you.
Now that you've managed to pull off that 1%, it brings you into the family, and we're all about family.
Jacob
Ralph Angel: Am I good for that boy?
Charley: You are the best thing that ever happened to that little boy.
Why should we always be the first to forgive and forget? He hurt our son in a reprehensible way. I won't apologize for wanting to see him in pain, and I won't apologize for protecting my son.
Charley
For the first time in my life I feel like I didn't have to justify my presence. Okay, you're black but you're the son of a celebrity so it's okay. You're black but you have money so…I feel like I belong.
Micah
I know it's a little thing, but it's my little thing. Almost 60 years old and I will not be sidelined, sidetracked or side stepped, or put in a damned corner and told to wait my turn. Not another day. It's my time. It's my time.
Violet
