- Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey: You know, I never think 'my best friend is white'. I just know my best friend is Natalie.
- Natalie Green: This is so depressing. You go through your whole life thinking you know yourself, then you wake up one morning and find out you're a bigot.
- Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey: You're not a bigot, Nat, because if you were, that would mean I was.
- Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey: Maybe you can just take it one date at a time. You can handle one date, you've been on hundreds of dates.
- Natalie Green: [pause] 44, and that includes Harvey.
- Jo Polniaczek: There are a lot of narrow minded people out there. Where I come from, black and white couples have a habit of winding up black and blue.
- Blair Warner: There are a lot of narrow minded people in this room too.
- Jo Polniaczek: Don't you give me that, YOUR mother belongs to a restricted country club!
- Blair Warner: It is NOT restricted... anymore.
- Blair Warner: Several of my friends are a lot less prejudice than they used to be.
- Edna Garrett: Sorry, Blair, but there's no such thing as 'a little prejudiced'. Some people just show it in more subtle ways than others.
- Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey: When a black and white couple date, everybody only wonders how the white family will take it, they just think the black family will be thrilled. When one of my aunts married a white man, nobody in the family jumped for joy about it, and when they got divorced, everybody was just glad there were no children!
- Natalie Green: Including you?
- Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey: ...I don't know. I never thought I'd feel this way.