A Man Called Adam (1966)

Ja'net DuBois: Martha

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• Martha : I understand you were involved in sit-ins, demonstrations and all of that down there.

  Claudia Ferguson : Yes.

  Martha : Fantastic. You mean you sit on stools. A cat comes along and knocks you off and you just get back on it.

  Claudia Ferguson : Well... I...

  Martha : Messy cats! I hear they have special classes where they teach you how to take abuse. Why don't you teach me some of that damn abuse, you dirty, black bitch!

  [She slaps Claudia across the face] 

• Martha : You're Sweet Daddy's granddaughter?

  Claudia Ferguson : Yes.

  Martha : How nice. I read about him today in Winchell's column. He said the only thing old about him was his clothes.

• Claudia Ferguson : Its hard to love a man like that, isn't it.

  Martha : No. We fit. He's got rocks in his head and I got holes in mine.

• Claudia Ferguson : I think you're a very nice person.

  Martha : Basically.