John Leeds Quotes in The Bushbaby (1969)

Tilison: Your wife was killed in the uprising.

John Leeds: That was an accident.

Tilison: In 1956 your houseboy, Tembo Murumbi, was suspected of Mau Mau activities.

John Leeds: [irritated] What are you trying to say?

Tilison: We all know the African mentality.

John Leeds: Do we?

Tilison: It's very likely that he has a resentment against you.

John Leeds: No...

Tilison: You do admit the possibility?

John Leeds: [Jackie and her father are standing next to a gravestone marked "In loving memory of Penelope Leeds, who died in the uprising of 1961"] I've arranged for Tembo to keep the flowers watered.

Jackie: I wish Tembo were coming with us.

John Leeds: He'll be at the boat to see us off.

[noticing Jackie's discontentment]

John Leeds: Jackie... Tembo belongs in Africa.

Jackie: Like Komba?

[she walks away from her father]

Jackie: I belong here, too. I was born here. I don't want to go away.

John Leeds: It can't be helped Jackie. I don't want to leave Africa any more than you do.

Jackie: It isn't only Africa, I have to leave everything!

John Leeds: If it is Tembo with Jackie, I don't want him arrested. You know what would happen.

Tilison: Isn't the important thing your daughter's safety?

John Leeds: If she is with Tembo she is safe.