Queen Sugar
Tuesdays 8:00 PM on OWNQueen Sugar Season 2 Quotes
Nova: Board room's just not my style.
Mother Brown: It ain't about your style. It's about doing what needs to be done when it needs to be done.
Student: It's just part of history.
Micah: Maybe you see history, all I see is hate.
Student: Okay. What's the alternative? We erase it? My take on it is if we pretend the Confederacy never existed then we forget how far we've come.
Remy: The damn Landrys. They're not going to stop, Charley.
Charley: Yeah, you're right. They're not going to stop until I stop them.
Blessed doesn't mean your life is cherries. It means even when it isn't you keep at it. Even after you mess up bad, people still want to see you be okay. Nine times your father and I came down her looking for you after you stopped calling. I searched homeless shelters, rehabs, halfway houses. I saw and imagined too much. I started drinking again. 23 years sober until I came down here. You were too young to remember and I didn't want you to know, but the social circles your father runs in; he's a proud man, Darla. It's not the type of thing you talk about. I'm glad we're here. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad your here. We're blessed. We love each other and it is that no matter what kind of love, and Blue is blessed because of Ralph Angel. It's the same kind of love. I can see it in his eyes. He just needs time.
Darlene
Charley: The way I see it, is to give into that is to live in bondage. To fear.
Micah: It seems like when you're black living in fear is just good common sense.
Darla: Ralph Angel, tell me anything. Tell me something. Ralph Angel, yell at me. Scream at me. Call me names. Anything! Get angry at me. Anything. Ralph Angel, please. Please come home.
Ralph Angel: What home?
Blood is blood, but business is business. It seems we both believe in progress above all else which is what the Queen Sugar mill is all about.
Charley
Pain is here, definitely, and hate, but there's also triumph, and community, and love.
Charley
If I meant we I would have said we. I'm not going to be another Leigh Anne. I don't never want to be a burden to nobody.
Violet
Nova: I can't be all of myself when I'm with you. I can't. I can't fight for my people every day and come home and have to explain it. I can't cry over brothers slayed by cops in the streets and no one ever pays, and then come home to a cop. Come on. This is crazy. I was going crazy. I can't want to share everything with you knowing there are parts of me you don't want to know. Part of me that loves my people more than anything that will make me set that aside.
Calvin: I never asked you to set it aside.
Nova: You never asked about it at all. And just because you wish something was meant to be doesn't mean it is.
Nova: I was the one that wasn't clear. I started losing myself, doing things, saying things, wearing things that weren't me. It was the me he wanted me to be.
Sierra: You woke up before most people do, before you were consumed, and for that, give yourself some credit. Okay?
Darla: Respectfully Mom, I have written to you for years. I have called, no response. I have been very clear with where I stood.
Darlene: No, Darla. If you had clarity you would know that just because you say the words doesn't make it true. You've said, "I'm clean," or "please help me," or "I love you," before but then you haven't been clean, or you haven't accepted our help, or you haven't respected our love. So don't act as if we've done you wrong, please.
