Nimi Da Silva Quotes in The Secret Laughter of Women (1999)

Nimi Da Silva: Mama, why am I always a cow in your proverbs?

Nimi Da Silva: Let's walk on. People are staring.

Matthew Field: Well, what do you expect? Satan walking you home from church.

Nimi Da Silva: What are you doing?

Matthew Field: We're having a shootout.

Nimi Da Silva: I don't approve of shooting or guns.

Matthew Field: All right. We're playing men who go bang very loudly at one another. Is that all right with you?

Sammy: [watching Nene and Mama Fola argue in proverbs] Why are they talking like that?

Nimi Da Silva: Proverbs, to be polite.

Sammy: It doesn't look very polite.

Nimi Da Silva: What are you doing in here?

Matthew Field: Snooping.

Nimi Da Silva: I've read your books. Saracen always "banging" and "screwing" and "nailing." That's not sex. That's carpentry.

Nene: The lessons you don't teach him, life will teach him. And life's lessons are bitter.

Nimi Da Silva: We're all right Sammy and I. But I'll beat him later if it will make you happy.

Nene: Why are you not married?

Nimi Da Silva: If it matters so much to you, you find me a husband.

Nene: What kind of husband? Foolish antelope?

Nimi Da Silva: Honest enough to take on Sammy and me. And brave enough to know the truth. And if he's romantic as well, I'll marry him tomorrow.

Sammy: Don't you wonder what it would be like to live in the twenty-fifth century?

Nimi Da Silva: Sweet Potato, I wonder what it would be like to live in the twentieth century.