The Secret Laughter of Women (1999)

Nia Long: Nimi Da Silva

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• 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.