Ouisa Kittredge Quotes in Six Degrees of Separation (1993)

Ouisa Kittredge: There is so much you don't know. You are so smart and so stupid.

Paul: I'll be treated with care if you take me to the police. If they don't know you're special, they kill you.

Ouisa Kittredge: Oh, I don't think they kill you.

Paul: Mrs. Louisa Kittredge, I am black.

Ouisa Kittredge: I will deliver you to them with kindness and affection.

Ouisa Kittredge: Don't think about elephants.

Flan Kittredge: Why do you stay in South Africa?

Geoffrey: One has to stay there. To educate the black workers. And we'll know we've been successful when they kill us.

Ouisa Kittredge: Oh, goodness.

Flan Kittredge: Planning the revolution that will destroy you.

Ouisa Kittredge: Putting your life on the line.

Geoffrey: We don't think of it like that. I wish you'd come and visit.

Ouisa Kittredge: Oh, would we visit you and sit in your gorgeous house, planning visits to the townships, demanding to see the poorest of the poor? "Oh, are you sure they're the worst off? I mean, we've come all this way. I mean, we don't want to see people just mildly victimized by apartheid. We demand shock." You know it doesn't seem right, sitting on the East Side, talking about revolution.

Ouisa Kittredge: Chaos, control. Chaos, control. You like, you like?

Paul: Did you see Donald Barthelme's obituary? He said that collage was the art form of the 20th century.

Ouisa Kittredge: Everything is somebody else's.

Paul: Not your children. Not your life.

Ouisa Kittredge: No, you got me there. That is mine. That is nobody else's.

Paul: You don't sound happy.

Ouisa Kittredge: There is so much you don't know. You are so smart and so stupid.