Thierno Leye credited as playing...
El Hadji Aboucader Beye
- Minister Kebe: The potion must have been excellent! You haven't changed cloths yet.
- Hadji Aboucader Beye: I couldn't get it up... nothing happened!
- Minister Kebe: What?
- Hadji Aboucader Beye: I couldn't get an erection. My mother-in-law says I have the Xala.
- Rama, El Hadji's daughter: A man with two wives is a liar and a hypocrite. With three, he's even worse.
- [El Hadj slaps Rama]
- Adja Assatu, El Hadji's first wife: El Hadji, let's go.
- El Hadji Aboucader Beye: Never forget I'm still in charge of this house! If you don't like it, take your revolution elsewhere! You hear me?
- Adja Assatu, El Hadji's first wife: Let's go.
- El Hadji Aboucader Beye: For people like your father, who kicked out the colonizers and liberated this country, polygamy is part of our religious heritage.
- Aunt of N'Goné, El Hadji's third wife: What happened?
- El Hadji Aboucader Beye: Nothing. I couldn't perform.
- Female Relative of N'Goné, El Hadji's third wife: All night with a girl like this and not a muscle stirs? El Hadji, go get some help.
- Aunt of N'Goné, El Hadji's third wife: I bring you this pure maiden and here you are like wet, crumpled paper. Why are you sitting there? Go get some help! What good is just sitting there?
- El Hadji Aboucader Beye: Democracy, equality, justice - are words we're too greedy to know the meaning of.