C.J. Sanders credited as playing...
Young Ray Robinson
- Aretha Robinson: Somebody'll fetch you when the bus gets to St. Augustine. When your there, show'em this.
- [name tag]
- Aretha Robinson: Tell them your name is Ray Charles Robinson.
- Aretha Robinson: An' the sandwiches I made, don't eat them all at once... ya hear me?
- Young Ray Robinson: [starting to cry] Mama... please don't make me go away. I'll keep up with the normal kids. I'll be good, just like George.
- Aretha Robinson: This got nothin' to do with George... I've taken you as far as I can, baby. The teachers at St. Augustine know things I can't teach you. An' you need an education in this world.
- Young Ray Robinson: I don't want no education!
- Aretha Robinson: Shh! don't say that!
- Young Ray Robinson: I don't! I wanna stay here with you!
- Aretha Robinson: Stop it, Ray! I won't have you livin' hand to mouth like me, you hear?
- [after Ray nods]
- Aretha Robinson: Now... If you wanna do something to make Mama proud, promise me you'll never let nobody turn you into no cripple... You won't become no charity case. An? you will *always* stand on your own two feet.
- Young Ray Robinson: I promise.
- Aretha Robinson: I love you baby... I'm so proud of you.
- Aretha Robinson: If you want to do something to make your mama proud, promise me. Promise me you won't let nobody turn you into no cripple, you won't become no charity case, and you'll stand on your own two feet.
- Young Ray Robinson: I promise.
- Aretha Robinson: I love you, baby. I'm so proud of you.
- Eula: Aretha! Aretha Robinson, what do you think you're doing?
- Aretha Robinson: Eula Bench, you promised me to split these washbaskets fair and square!
- Eula: And I did.
- Aretha Robinson: Hell, you did! You charged them white folks one thing and paid me another!
- Eula: Well, now, who's gonna wash all these?
- Aretha Robinson: You can! Now pay me my money!
- Eula: Alright, I'm gonna pay you your two little dollars, but don't you be expecting no more work from me!
- Aretha Robinson: I got all the work I need from you! Ray, George, come on!
- Eula: That's right! And don't y'all ever come back!
- Aretha Robinson: [to Ray and George] Y'all got to learn to read and write real good, so you don't have to work for folks like them. Scratch a liar, find a thief. Understand?
- Young Ray Robinson, Young George Robinson: Yes, ma'am.