oh i pale now. oh it feels so good fifi.

you have to go talk to dat doctor! you remember when you were little girl? you have to be like lady sneak with dos eyes!

F: (about the Korean soap opera on the TV) My God Mom! Haven't we seen this episode before, wasn't it on this morning!?

Josette: I love you. I love all my children.

F exits.

Josette: Are you happy?

A: Yeah. Are you?

Josette: Yeah. (pause, then...) I miss ma Leslie, and I miss ma Boo.

He is a happy boy. Andrew, you happy, eh? Yeah!!!

(on the Taliban)

Wish I could go der and shoot dem people, my god! All'dem!

Well I go to bed. Where are you girl? Baby!

Josette: I worry about my Fifi, she no home yet. Do you have her number?

A: No. Don't worry, she'll be home. She probably just went the grocery story.

Josette: Golly! Why she haf to-do dat?! It be betta I go mysulf, do it all in one trip, one time a week. My gah! Not go every single day like dis, it make no sense!

Josette: You know, I have to tell you something.

A: Yeah?

Josette: I don't think I want to have the surgury.

A: Why? What are you feeling?

Josette: I feel it is strayga do that to me.

A: Pobably right.

Josette: Yeah. And I'm scared.

A: Don't worry, it will be very quick and easy. We make big dinner afterwards.

Josette: Yeah! You make good idea!

A: Yes, we'll cook it the night before and eat right when you get home from the hospital.

Josette: Yeah! I like dat! You be there with me?

A: At the hospital?

Josette: Yeap.

A: Of course.

Josette: Oh, good!

A: I had a bad dream about you last night.

Josette: What? What happened??

A: I dreamed that you were crying. That you were on the couch and you said "I am watching my soaps but I am crying inside and I don't know what to do."

Josette: Really?

A: Yeah. It made me sad all day. We both started crying together. It was not a good dream.

Josette: Well, don't be sad. It's just a dream.

A: Okay.

Josette: You know, that's the way it's been all my life. I always been crying on the inside.

(Josette picks up the phone)

Josette: Yes, hello?

A: Sunshine!

Josette: Oh! My baby! My baby boy!

A: How you doing?

Josette: Fine.

A: How you feel?

Josette: Fine, my love.

A: Good.

Josette: Do you have something to tell me my love?

A: No, I just wanted to hear your voice.

Josette: (with a little vibrato in her voice) Ohhhhhhh! That's marvelous. I love to hear yo voice my ni-nette-ta!

A: Okay bye bye, I'll talk to you later!

Josette: BYE MA LOVE!

Sometimes I wish to beat you like a mash potatoes!

I watch my soap, but inside I crying inside. I don't know what to do!

Do you imagine? I bake bread yesterday and I have to bake bread again tomorrow!! (huge, huge guffaw) Oh! I can't believe it! My God, they love my bread!

Hey Ondrew... Imma have a little little little-little dog. Very soon. Very soon. I have to go to the SPCA. I read in cat-log that people who have little dog, it save deir life.

Oh boy. It's so marvelous. America. We we saw those flag, we were so excited. Dey were so happy.

At my young age, in France, when they see American ship coming, they dancing. Fiesta! America was very good. She still very good. But they have no good people. No way. The one we had before, they wanted America to have power, and we had it. Nobody bother us. All the founding father.. I bet all them people in their grave. Oh! They must be furious. (pause) Oh John Adams, I did love him. I love John Adams.

(about George Washington)

We no find no man like dat any more.

A: What time is it?

Josette: 5:12. Don't tell me you gotta go to work.

A: I do.

Josette: Oh, no! Oh my baby. I'm gonna miss you. I cannot do nothing without you. I can no argue, I can no talk. I'm going to be alone.

Josette: What were you doin last night? You go drinking?

A: Yes, I hung out with my friends.

Josette: Okay, I'm just worried about you. I worry about you baby you are one of mine.

A: What blouse you gonna wear today?

Josette: I don't know, I have so many. I hafta tank about it.