Jurnee Smollett credited as playing...
Eve Batiste
- Poe Batiste: [screaming upstairs] I hate her, I hate her! I wish she was dead!
- Roz Batiste: Eve, what did you do to your brother?
- Eve Batiste: I'm going to push him out of a window if I don't get out of this house!
- Roz Batiste: Eve!
- Eve Batiste: Cisely has been in the goddamn tub for an hour!
- [Mozelle slaps her on the butt]
- Eve Batiste: You know that. She stayed in there for three hours yesterday.
- Roz Batiste: Fortunately there is more than one bathroom in this house.
- Eve Batiste: Ain't that much dirt in all Louisiana. Get out of the damn tub!
- Eve Batiste: Mama keeps stabbing herself in the kitchen! Show her your hands, Mama.
- Roz Batiste: I think you'd better hush...
- Eve Batiste: And where's Daddy? He's never home. He's supposed to be home sometimes!
- Roz Batiste: Listen, you little ingrate. Your father works hard so we can have a house with four bathrooms!
- Eve Batiste: Not every night he's working, I know he's not!
- Poe Batiste: [about a snake] Maybe it's just sleepin.g
- Eve Batiste: [lifts it up] It's dead, you little chicken.
- [snake suddenly flicks its tongue at them both; they scream and drop it]
- Eve Batiste: How do you kill someone with voodoo?
- Mozelle Batiste Delacroix: Hmm, I almost forgot you was there. Stick some pins in a doll, perhaps. I really don't know. What made you ask that?
- Eve Batiste: Nothing.
- Mozelle Batiste Delacroix: Well, you must have been thinking something before you said it. What led you to that particular thought?
- [Glances at Eve]
- Eve Batiste: I don't know...
- Mozelle Batiste Delacroix: [Expression becomes serious] Is there some you're angry with? Someone you want dead?
- Eve Batiste: [pauses] I'm going inside.
- [Turns to leave]
- Mozelle Batiste Delacroix: [Stops Eve] No, I think you better tell me what's on your mind!
- Eve Batiste: [while dusting off the pictures of Mozelle's late husbands] Which one did you love best?
- Mozelle Batiste Delacroix: I don't know, Eve. They was all different. Anderson was the handsomest man I had ever seen. Your Uncle Harry, he was the sweetest. And Maynard....Maynard loved me most of all. You know, when I was your age, before I ever did the counseling, I could look at people, complete strangers, and see their whole lives so clear. But when I looked at each of my husbands, I never saw a thing. That's how it always is. Blind to my own life.