Patsey Quotes in 12 Years a Slave (2013)

Patsey: I went to Massa Shaw's plantation!

Edwin Epps: Ya admit it.

Patsey: Freely. And you know why?

[she produces a piece of soap from the pocket of her dress]

Patsey: I got this from Mistress Shaw. Mistress Epps won't even grant me no soap ta clean with. Stink so much I make myself gag. Five hundred pounds 'a cotton day in, day out. More than any man here. And 'fo that I will be clean; that all I ax. Dis here what I went to Shaw's 'fo.

Edwin Epps: You lie...

Patsey: The Lord knows that's all.

Edwin Epps: You lie!

Patsey: And you blind wit yer own covetousness. I don't lie, Massa. If you kill me, I'll stick ta that.

Edwin Epps: Oh, I'll fetch you down. I'll learn you to go to Shaw's. I'll take the starch outta ya. Treach, go get some line.