Lackawanna Blues

Bertha:
Did you see all those negroes shouting "black power, black power"? Hair as nappy as can be!

Rachel "Nanny" Crosby:
The black panthers?

Bertha:
Yeah. I have all the "black power" they need right in my hot comb.

Rachel "Nanny" Crosby:
Luck is you gettin' outta Georgia alive.

Rachel "Nanny" Crosby:
[about Bill's chauvinistic remark] I see his lips movin' and I don't feel nuthin' but a breeze.

Laura:
Nanny, it's Laura.

Rachel "Nanny" Crosby:
Laura, what you doing with them babies out here this time of night?

Rachel "Nanny" Crosby:
Lord have mercy.

Laura:
Jesse keeps beating on me, Nanny. I can't take it anymore. He slapped me with the back of his hand. I'm a mess.

Rachel "Nanny" Crosby:
Here, put this ice on your mouth. Want me to take you to the hospital?

Laura:
No.

Rachel "Nanny" Crosby:
Well, I could make a bed for the kids right here on the couch and ya'll can just stay right on up here with me.

Laura:
He'll come looking for us tomorrow Nanny. He knows I come here.

Laura:
I'm just so tired of this, Nanny. I can't... I can't [she starts to cry]

Rachel "Nanny" Crosby:
I know. Nanny got you. Go on. Go on, let it out. It's gonna be all right.