Charisse Slocumb Quotes in Kingdom Come (2001)

Charisse Slocumb: Are my kids drivin' you crazy?

Lucille: Oh, no, honey; we locked them outside.

Charisse Slocumb: Bernice Talbot? My-my husband done did it wit' that child in that "Shop-Well" parking lot? LORD TAKE ME NOW.

Charisse Slocumb: My husband done did it with that child in the Shopwell parking lot? Take me now, Lord!

[falls to the floor screaming in hysterics]

Marguerite Slocumb: Don't nobody mind her, she just likes attention.

Juanita Slocumb: Charisse, honey, where is Junior?

Charisse Slocumb: I don't know, ask Bernice Talbot.

Juanita Slocumb: [laughs] Girl, you so funny. You want some gum?

Charisse Slocumb: [Coldly] No thank you.

Juanita Slocumb: I always crave a pack of sweet gum before weddings and funerals. I think it's something about the rhythm of it that sort of lulls me, helps my mind wander. You wanna know what I think about when my mind wanders?

Charisse Slocumb: Well I'm sure you gon tell me.

Juanita Slocumb: I think about my life. How at the end of each day I tuck my precious boy into bed. Turn off the lights in my $80,000 home. Crawl into my king-sized bed. And lie there and wonder. Where the hell my husband is.

[pause]

Juanita Slocumb: You sure you don't want a piece?

Charisse Slocumb: [Surprised. Takes a piece of gum] Why don't you leave him?

Juanita Slocumb: And go where? Charisse, I got everything I ever asked for.

Charisse Slocumb: But if he really loves you...

Juanita Slocumb: Then I might be forced into that God-awful position of having to love him back.

[pause]

Juanita Slocumb: Do you love Junior?

Charisse Slocumb: I just...

Juanita Slocumb: [Interrupts] No. Do you want him back?

[pause]

Juanita Slocumb: You don't have to answer that honey. Just sit back and let the sweet gum take its effect. It'll come to you.

Juanita Slocumb: Whew. Hot in here.