Hattie McDaniel: Queenie

Show Boat

Queenie

Joe: I just shell them peas.
Queenie: You ain't pickin' them up.
Joe: No, but I could've if you didn't. I could do a lotta things if it was necessary.
Queenie: Then why don't you?
Joe: It ain't necessary.

Queenie: Joe, I believe you de laziest man dat evah lived on dis river.
Joe: On dis river, Queenie? That's sayin' a whole lot. Yeah, that's sayin' a *whole* lot.

Parthy: Mercy! Something must be on fire the way Queenie's running
Cap'n Andy Hawks: Now what's the trouble, Queenie?
Queenie: There's a powerful fine lookin' fella' out here, wants to know if you all could accommodate him by takin' him down the river fuh as the next town.
Cap'n Andy Hawks: We don't carry no passengers - fine lookin' did you say? Is he an actor?
Queenie: Might be. But he seems more like the kind of a gentleman it's a pleasure to wait on.

Pete: Hey, where'd you get that gold brooch?
Queenie: You mean this scrumptious piece o' jewelry?
Pete: Yeah, where'd you get it?
Queenie: It was give tuh me.
Pete: Who give it to you?
Queenie: Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies!
Queenie: [she walks off, laughing heartily]
Pete: [muttering] I know who give it to you, and she's gonna be sorry too. All right, Miss Julie LaVerne, if that's how you feel about me...
Pete: [He rips the photo of Julie out of its frame on the stand, but is seen by Windy.]

Queenie: Joe. Joe! Where have you been slow poke? Why are you always draggin' them big feet like they's chunks of lead?
Joe: Take your time, Queenie.
Queenie: Take my time? I gotta have that flour to bake the bread with.
Joe: They won't run away from you, Queenie. And if it do? They always be tomorrow.

Queenie: They'll be some taters to peel later. And when I yell for ya, you come in and *make* it quick! Lazy, good for nothin'.

Queenie: How come you all know dat song?
Magnolia: Why? Do you know it, Queenie?
Queenie: For shore, I does. But I never hear anybody but colored folks sing dat song. Sounds funny for Miss Julie to know it.
Magnolia: Julie sings it all the time!

Joe: She'll be all right.
Queenie: That's what you say about everythin'. You don't get excited - why? Cause you don't do nuthin'. You don't cook, like me. You don't act, like the show folks. You don't work on the tow boat. What do you do you?

Joe: Why, dat's my fa-vo-right song!
Queenie: [singing] Mah man is shif'less, An' good for nuthin' too, He's mah man jes' de same, He's never near me, When dere's work to do...