- Terry Davis: What's wrong? What's wrong, my ass! You know what's wrong. Look, if I was a white woman and I walked in here and wanted to get into by bank deposit box, I wouldn't have to go through half this shit.
- Bank Woman: Hey, you shush!
- Terry Davis: Shush my ass, bitch! Now look, I want my fucking property or I'll burn this bank down!
- Frankie J. Parker: Sorry about that, but, I gotta leave you, sisters and brothers. Frankie J. Parker. The "J" is for joy; because, that's what you get from Frankie J. The mind-tripper, the mighty dipper, and the honey dripper. Lock up your daughters, girl friends, and wives, Mr. Jones, because Frankie J. is on his way. Frankie J. in the mornin'. Frankie J. in the night. Frankie J. in dreams. So fine, I want to kiss myself. Frankie J. "Joy" your messenger of enlightenment. After me, who remembers Aristotle? Listen to me with my bad, humble self.
- Gloria: [on the phone] Hello, Mr. Bostick. I'm sorry but he left already, Mr. Bostick. I swear he did, Mr. Bostick. Yes, Mr. Bostick. I will, Mr. Bostick. Goodbye, Mr. Bostick.
- [hangs up the phone]
- Gloria: One of these days you're gonna wear that man's patience down and find yourself on the streets without a job.
- Frankie J. Parker: Gloria, if that day ever comes, the women of this town will burn this radio station down.
- Melinda: I didn't say you could sit.
- Frankie J. Parker: I'm sitting because you are a lady from out of town. You don't know anybody. You're beautiful. And I'm beautiful. So, it's only natural that we would gravitate toward each other.
- Frankie J. Parker: Your eyes have been following me all over this joint.
- Melinda: Maybe its because you walk funny.
- Frankie J. Parker: Then you're a freak for a funny walker.
- Gloria: Rev. Johnson called. He wants you to speak at his church on the fourth Sunday.
- Frankie J. Parker: Yeah. Church must be in some heavy trouble, huh? But, you tell him its cool. I'll show him and his congregation what paradise is. Give them a touch of paradise right here on earth. Mmm, yeah. How's that hit you, Gloria?
- Gloria: I think you're beginning to believe your own bull shit.
- Frankie J. Parker: [laughs] Later, Baby.
- Melinda: Is there anything you haven't been or done?
- Frankie J. Parker: I haven't made love to you.
- Melinda: Yes you have. I your *dreams*.
- Frankie J. Parker: Brilliant mind perceptionist - that's what I am. Just another one of the things that makes me so special.
- Frankie J. Parker: Involvement. That's how people should enjoy each other. Its like some hidden nerve that suddenly cracks on itself.
- Frankie J. Parker: What you wanted was some weak-kneed faggot you could manipulate. Now, I can't cut that. So, why don't we just leave it, huh? You don't fuck with me and I won't fuck with you.
- Melinda: When I met you at Tank's last night, I just had to find out if there was something else other than jive-time behind that false exterior you're so in love with.
- Frankie J. Parker: How'd I make out?
- Melinda: It was a heavy, deep night, Frankie. That's the way you ought to think about yourself: deep and heavy. God knows the world is too full of hustlers and pimps, freaks, just plain old fashioned losers. Anyway, it's nice to run into - some soul for a change.
- Terry Davis: I happen to feel that there's something very powerful about being a woman. If I'm here because I love you, it doesn't mean I have to let you shit on me again.
- Terry Davis: If I want you, I want you for me. If I need you, I need you for me. If you put me in that bed and fuck me, I want it to be *me*.
- Frankie J. Parker: Look, man, thanks for them lawyers you sent down to get me out of that joint. Them pig-ass motherfucking cops are crazy, baby.
- Tank: Look, don't sweat it. Anytime I can help a brother out, you know where I'm at.
- Gloria: You're going to get me fired from my job yet, Frankie J.
- Frankie J. Parker: Don't worry about it, baby. When I get back to the office, besides making Bostick give you a raise, I'm gonna let you sit on my knee every now and then.
- Gloria: I pick the knees I sit on.
- Terry Davis: Time, Frankie Parker, is merely a measurement between here and there, between now and tomorrow, and life and death.
- Terry Davis: That girl, Melinda, to live with that man, white man, she must have been in an awful lot of pain to run away from it the way she did.
- Tank: That gift was from my heart.
- Frankie J. Parker: The only thing wrong with that is, that one of these days I might find myself in front of some investigating committee trying to prove what a big heart Tank Robinson's got - only to discover he had it transplanted with the heart of a midget.
- Tank: Frankie, you know what, you bring this fine woman up here for me to meet and she gets intellectual on me. Now, ain't that a bit. A black woman getting intellectual on a nigger rich as me.