Why Do Fools Fall in Love

Frankie Lymon:
How come you keep stepping on my heart?

Zola Taylor:
You prefer I pee on it? That's what's going to happen if you don't let me off this bus.

Frankie Lymon:
[grabs Zola as she enters backstage and kisses her] Baby, you are one fine thing.

Zola Taylor:
[slaps Frankie]

Young Little Richard:
Ooh! Ouch! You want me to get you some ice?

Emira Eagle:
That was the last time I saw him... alive. About a week later, Frankie's brother called to tell me that Frankie had overdosed.

Elizabeth 'Mickey' Waters:
I loved Frankie! And yes, I would have done aynthing, ANYTHING to save his life!

Frankie Lymon:
Do you love him?

Zola Taylor:
I told you, Frankie. He's a nice, good man...

Frankie Lymon:
I didn't ask that! I asked you do you love him?

Zola Taylor:
YES! I love him, okay?

Frankie Lymon:
Oh, no, no... You said that marriage would tie you down. You just didn't want to be tied down to me.

Zola Taylor:
No, I never said that, Frankie.

Frankie Lymon:
Oh, yeah, that's what you said. Now, let me tell you something. You gonna always be tied down to me. Whether you like it ot not. We're like magnets...

[forcefully kisses Zola]

Zola Taylor:
[pushes Frankie away] Mm-mmm. Don't do this to me, Frankie.

Frankie Lymon:
Don't leave me right now, Zola.

Zola Taylor:
[flashes ring] I'm married.

Frankie Lymon:
No, that was a mistake! That was a mistake!

Zola Taylor:
NO! I got a life, baby, and it ain't gonna include you. Now you got to go. GET OUT!

Ezra Grahme:
[while questioning Emira Eagle] Ma'am, do you hold any degrees?

Elizabeth 'Mickey' Waters:
Is the Pope an old white man?

Emira Eagle:
I have a Bachelor's degree in Social Studies as well as a Bachelor's degree in Education.

Zola Taylor:
[about Frankie] That flat-footed little weirdo played all of us.

Frankie Lymon:
Hey, what kind of dog is that?

Elizabeth 'Mickey' Waters:
A somma dog.

Frankie Lymon:
Somma dog?

Elizabeth 'Mickey' Waters:
Yeah! Somma this, somma that!

Emira Eagle:
I thought he was talented.

Elizabeth 'Mickey' Waters:
Okay. He COULD sing.

Zola Taylor:
He could SING me right out of my panties!

Frankie Lymon:
[after receiving a restaurant bill] You better let me take care of this. Cause if you haven't heard, my record's #3! [Teenagers yell in agreement]

Zola Taylor:
No, you better let ME take of this. Cause if you haven't heard, MY record's #1!

Emira Eagle:
Frankie and I were married, 1967 in Augusta, Georgia. I paid for his funeral. And I don't recall seeing any of you there.

Elizabeth 'Mickey' Waters:
Oh, please. Don't even play me. Comin' up in here wearing white *after* Labor Day looking like a down-home schoolmarm!

Emira Eagle:
YES, I am a down-home schoolmarm. I teach English in high school. A class you obviously skipped.

Judge Lambrey:
Am I to believe there are three women claiming to be the widow of Frank Joseph Lymon?

Zola Taylor:
Frankie just needed something different... *all* the time.

Emira Eagle:
Maybe there were three separate Frankies, and each of us got a piece.