Daughters of the Dust (1991)

Cheryl Lynn Bruce: Viola Peazant

Quotes 

• Viola Peazant : All that yellow wasted.

• Viola Peazant : When I left this island, I was a sinner and I didn't even know it. But I left this island, touched over to the mainland, and fell into the arms of the Lord.

  Pezant child : What they got out there, Viola?

  Viola Peazant : Life, child, the beginning of a new life.

  Teenage girl : Who they out there?

  Viola Peazant : Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

• Viola Peazant : They're not supposed to die. It ain't right! There supposed to die and go to heaven! It ain't right.