- Annie Shorty: Those girls do everything you ask them to do. They practice hard, they get good grades, they win.
- Kenny Williams: Then you tell me why I'm pissed off.
- Annie Shorty: Because you're a black man in America.
- Kenny Williams: That's right. I'm good and pissed off.
- Annie Shorty: Well then get over it! You're talking to Indian people here. Get over it, get on with it or get the hell out!
- Annie Shorty: Most of these kids have never met an African American before.
- Kenny Williams: Well, I met my first Native American yesterday.
- Annie Shorty: Indian.
- Kenny Williams: Black.
- Kenny Williams: What the hell's going on?
- Annie Shorty: They don't understand why you're pissed off all the time.
- Kenny Williams: Look, I've had to deal with Norville, Homer, Shirleen.
- Annie Shorty: Shirleen?
- Kenny Williams: Yeah, she went out and got herself pregnant.
- Annie Shorty: She's not perfect, she made a mistake, but to you she's just another dark-skinned girl dragging down the race.
- Kenny Williams: I didn't say that.
- Annie Shorty: You thought it.
- Kenny Williams: So, we're all good at basketball, right?
- Homer Horton: You put it on your resume.
- Kenny Williams: I was a player. And basketball never did a damn thing for me that a book didn't do better.
- Dwayne: The Lady Warriors kept their losing streak alive under new Head Coach Kenny Williams, giving up a season high 101 points in their most pathetic performance of the year. It was an all around team effort as our girls led in unforced turnovers, missed free-throws and half-time fan departures. Oh well, thank God for the band! This is the home of the Lady Warriors, all losers all the time.
- [on the radio]
- Annie Shorty: What are you doing to those girls?
- Kenny Williams: I'm teaching them to succeed.
- Annie Shorty: By running them into the ground?
- Kenny Williams: Well, it beats running off a mountain and screaming 'shit!'
- [referring to Carla's joke]
- Annie Shorty: Oh, so you know all about Indians now? You know about 'unity,' 'harmony.'
- [said in Dine]
- Kenny Williams: What?
- Annie Shorty: Unity? Harmony? All of us together?
- Kenny Williams: Look, what is this, multiple choice? I don't get it.
- Annie Shorty: That's an understatement.
- Franklin: You think Indians come in white?
- Carla McKinney: I know rednecks come in red!
- [after he's vandalized Kenny's car]
- Alvina 'Baby' Tsosie: Got lots of clan up there.
- [talking about where she lives]
- Kenny Williams: Never say clan to a black man.
- Kenny Williams: Look, I just want respect for me and my girls, that's all.
- [after Newell shouted racial insults]
- Homer Horton: Yeah, well fighting Norville Newell is not a good way to get it, Kenny. Come on, I've been looking at their shit-eating grins for going on nine years now. Ten, if you count church. I saw you and I said, 'now there's a man who change all that.'
- Kenny Williams: The first time you saw me, you thought you saw the new janitor.
- Annie Shorty: This is black mail.
- [referring to Newell's complaint letter]
- Kenny Williams: Well, this black male has had enough!
- Kenny Williams: Look, I know what it is to be used by rednecks. I went to an all-white high school where I was all-league my senior year. My coach had a problem with my attitude, so he kept me from getting a scholarship to college. Didn't seem to mind my attitude when I was winning games for him. You think Homer's any different? I think not.
- [to Annie]
- Mother Tsosie: Basketball takes her away from our traditions. It's the women that keep the old ways alive. The women keep the history.
- Kenny Williams: Well, sometimes you got to make history.
- [trying to get Baby back in school]
- Annie Shorty: God help me, I wanna beat that bastard. Tell me this is still about education.
- [at the championship game]
- Kenny Williams: Ever think of cutting that hair?
- [to Francie]
- Annie Shorty: For traditionals, it's like cutting off your thoughts.
- Shirleen: Would you like anything to drink?
- Kenny Williams: Yeah, I'll have a Bud to start.
- Shirleen: Who?
- Kenny Williams: Budweiser. I don't care, whatever beer you got.
- Shirleen: Um, we don't have any beer. Our rez is dry.
- Kenny Williams: Well, nobody told him.
- [to a man outside the diner]
- Kenny Williams: Okay Cuch, why'd you bring me all the way up here?
- Cuch: You're standing at the center of two worlds.
- Kenny Williams: Yeah, well, I thought I left that other world behind.
- Cuch: Well don't look through their eyes, look through your eyes. From here you can see forever - the past, the present, the future. See, the Creator scattered us to the four winds so we could prove that we're human by finding our way home.
- Kenny Williams: Well, always trying to find your way home can make a man crazy.
- Cuch: Hmmh, sometimes you have to go all the way around the world to find your way, and sometimes you've got to put pride aside to get there. Me, I'm home.
- Kenny Williams: This is like, what, a sacred site or something?
- Cuch: This?
- [chuckles]
- Cuch: This is just a big rock.
- [walks away laughing]
- Dwayne: And last night the Lady Warriors basketball team kept their losing streak alive with a 27 to 89 squeaker against Fort Briggs. Hey, our girls finally broke into double digits!
- [on the radio]
- Kenny Williams: So, you're a mechanic too?
- Cuch: You know, I thought about a more traditional line of work like bingo. But, I didn't like the hours.
- Mother Tsosie: I weave my whole life. And soon, I make mistake, but I make it on purpose. My spirit would be trapped in a perfect design. A flaw lets it out. Flaws keep our feet on mother earth.
- Cuch: Well, you know, Kenny, resurrecting wrecked cars is a great old Native folk art. See, you look at this car and you see a red Chevy. I look at this car, I see a blank canvas. You wouldn't rush Picasso, would yah?