Passing (I) (2021)

Tessa Thompson: Irene

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• Irene : We're all passing for something or other, aren't we?

• Irene : I'm beginning to believe that no one is ever completely happy, free, or safe.

• Hugh : Yet, lots of people pass all the time.

  Irene : It's easy for a Negro to pass for White. I'm not sure it would be so simple for a White person to pass for Colored.

  Hugh : Never thought of that!

  Irene : No, Hugh. Why should you?

• Hugh : About "passing": Tell me, can you always tell the difference?

  Irene : Oh, now you really are sounding ignorant.

  Hugh : No, no, I mean it. Feelings of kinship or something like that?

• Irene : Well, sir, you have to admit that the average Colored man is a better dancer the average White.

• Clare : I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

  Irene : Yes. But also the most responsible.

• Irene : Things aren't always as they seem, Hugh.

• Irene : You just passed the only person I ever met while disguised as a white woman.

• Clare : Curious to me... a man like that going to a Negro dance.

  Irene : Hundreds of white people like Hugh come to affairs in Harlem now.

  Clare : Why?

  Irene : Same reason you are here, to see negroes.