Queen Sugar
Tuesdays 8:00 PM on OWNQueen Sugar Season 2 Episode 9: "Yet Do I Marvel" Quotes
Charley: All the world knows now; I feel like I can finally breathe again.
Remy: So what do you say? You and me tonight. Gumbo up to your elbows, so good it will make you holler.
Charley: So you want to make me holler, huh?
Zika is a hurricane by another name.
Robert
You look healthy, which is saying a lot considering all you've been through. It's not easy to hold yourself together during tough times.
Lorna
Charley: Every step of this has been my choice.
Lorna: Choice or reaction? I understand divorce.
Charley: Mom, I'm happy.
Being a parent is not just about the good stuff. It's also about the harder stuff, and that is something your mother understands.
Davis
Lorna: Is this really the best use of your degree?
Charley: Well, I'm running a business, exactly what an MBA is for.
Lorna: Yes, but you were so happy doing what you were doing, negotiating these million dollar contracts, endorsements deals. That seemed like a much better fit than boilers, cranes, vacuum pans.
Charley: I'm not married to Davis anymore, if you haven't noticed.
Lorna: But please, any professional athlete would be lucky to have you as their manager.
Charley: Mom, I'm the first black woman to own a mill in the state. That's not small scale.
Lorna: My question is, will you be satisfied with this?
Charley: I mean, she blows into town months after I had to bury my father, her ex-husband, and now she just wants instant access into everything going on in my life.
Remy: I'm sure she means well.
Charley: Well then she should have been here. But she sends flowers, she writes the most beautiful postcards from all of the exotic places she visits and…
Remy: Sounds kind of nice.
Charley: No. She's good on the page, less so in person.
Violet: You all have been so good at taking baby steps you sure you want to go all in right now?
Ralph Angel: Sometimes you've got to just bet on yourself.
Violet: I know that's right. I'm happy.
Remy: What happened to the traditional visit to the, you know? Let the man see a little something shake.
Nova: Remy. Hollywood. Don't even think about taking my brother out to that strip club at the Parish line.
Remy: We was talking about bowling.
Charley: For the record, my mother and my Aunt Vi don't mix. They're like...
Remy: Oil and vinegar.
Charley: More like ammonia and bleach. My mom agreed not to come back here a long time ago.
Charley: I should have known. I spent summers here, I know how people think. And I didn't prepare him for living in the South. I don't know what I thought. That he's smart? That he'll figure it out; he'll make it work. I didn't protect him, not like how you were protecting me. Isn't that what you said when you sent me up to boarding school? You were protecting me.
Lorna: I sent you away to school because you were a black woman in a white world and you needed the best education and the best pedigree.
Charley: It wasn't enough.
Lorna: And that is why I sent you to spend summers here, so that you would know where you came from and have that identity.
Charley: But then I had to go home and I felt the opposite at home. Like I had to manage my blackness, like there was no room for it. Like it was something I put on a few weeks of the year. I know you don't understand that.
Lorna: Why?
Charley: Because you can't. Because you can't understand that.
Lorna: Because I'm white, is that what you're trying to say? Well, I did the best that I could by you and that is what any mother does for their child. And that is what you have done for Micah. And he is strong, just like you.
