WEST: Somebody done busted out my window. A great big old six-foot piece of glass! People ain’t got sense enough to walk through the door. Over there pushing and carrying on. Let me get some coffee, Risa. I don’t care how many people be lined up there to see Prophet Samuel . . .  he leaving my place tomorrow. I’m talking about a big piece of glass! Ain’t no telling how much it cost to replace that.

RISA: You ought to put a board up there.

WEST: I ain’t gonna put up no board. They better get out here with that piece of glass. I spent twelve years putting up board. I worked hard not to put up board. Let them cut a piece of glass and bring it out and bill me. There was a time when they wouldn’t do that. When I was down there on Centre I couldn’t get the windows fixed. The toilet break down it be two weeks before somebody come and fix it. When I built that over there I said that wasn’t gonna happen. Something go wrong I call the man who built it and he come right out and take care of it. No, sweetheart, West ain’t gonna put up no board.

MEMPHIS: I hear tell somebody tried to break in there.

WEST: Tried to come in through the basement window. Let me get a little sugar here, Risa. I hired Mason to sit over there tonight. I want to see them come in with him there.

HOLLOWAY: They be a fool to tangle with Mason and that twelve-gauge shotgun. The police sorry they had to retire him, as many niggers as he done shot.

WEST: Say, Memphis, I told you what was gonna happen when you went down there. But you don’t listen to nobody. They got it all stacked up against you before you walk through the door.

MEMPHIS: That’s alright. I know how to deal with white folks. Ask Holloway. Down from where we come from you learn how to deal with white folks quick. It won’t be the first time I bucked heads with white folks about my property.

WEST: I tell you what I do . . .  you wanna be stubborn . . .  I’ll go ahead and give you twenty thousand for it.

MEMPHIS: You gonna give me twenty thousand?

WEST: We can go right on down to the bank now. I’ll give you fifteen now and five thousand after I sell it to the city.

MEMPHIS: I knew there was a catch to it.