Claudia McNeil credited as playing...
Mu' Dear
- Mu' Dear: Rosie, sure enough Billie Jean is your child - but I got the feelin' you're wrong.
- Mama Rose: Y'all lie!
- Mu' Dear: You ain't never in your life called me a liar and God's gonna whip you for that when you're layin' in your death bed. God's gonna whip you 'cause I am your mother, Rosie. I am your *mother*.
- Mama Rose: Dear, you don't understand what I've been through with these girls!
- Mu' Dear: Rosie, you don't know nothin' about nobody in this house, 'cause you're too busy tryin' to save strangers! If anybody just touch one of them gals off the street, you'll bring down the wrath of God. But with your own children? Your own family?
- Mama Rose: Yeah, Mama, what about my own family? What kind of love did you give me to pass on?
- Mu' Dear: You're gonna carry that to your grave, ain't you Rosie? You're gonna whip me with that until it kills you or me, ain't ya?
- Mama Rose: Dear, I love all of you. I did what I could for Billie Jean. Now, you know I didn't raise her for no dancin' and shakin' her tail in public.
- Mu' Dear: God didn't make you perfect in your judgment either, Rosie. You could be wrong about Billie Jean. God knows I ain't crazy about her wantin' to be no dancer either, but that's her life! Now if she don't make nothin' out of it, it will be her nothin'!
- Norma: Mu' Dear, you want us to just stand around and let her ruin her life, huh?
- Mu' Dear: Well, she can't do no worse for hers than you done with your-in. None of you! - Now, Rosie, you come to your senses!
- Mu' Dear: Oh, Rosie, Rosie. Pickin' on me ain't gonna wash your feelin's away for him.
- Mama Rose: Oh, you talkin' outta your head, Mama.
- Mu' Dear: Yeah, that's right. I'm just a dumb old woman - talkin' outta my head. I don't know nothin'. Oh, Rosie, even that old whale had to let Jonah out of his gut one day. Honey, whatever's holdin' on to you, you better give it up before it's too late. Rosie, you better give it up.