Any Day Now

Catherine: (reading over M.E.'s article) You left out all the horrible things I did. M.E.: I decided to write instead about a woman who took a black child to an all-white hospital and demanded help. You must've been so scared. Catherine: Rene was hurt. You asked me if I remember those days, of course I do, and I'm ashamed of myself.

M.E.: Do you remember the night Mrs. Jackson came over, she wanted to thank you for taking Rene to the hospital, and you wouldn't even let her in the house? Catherine: Oh that never happened. M.E.: Yes it did, I was there! Catherine: I'm sure it was just late. M.E.: Do you remember you wouldn't let Rene in the house? We had to play out in the backyard. Catherine: And how many people do you think would've allowed that? M.E.: She was over all the time you know, we played Twister, watched TV, she was there a lot.

M.E.: This whole thing goes back to slavery and what we went through as kids, do you ever think about those days? Colliar: As little as possible. M.E.: Well I think about them, I called Uncle Jimmy today. Colliar: What? What'd you have to go and do that for? M.E.: He's the worst racist I know, he wasn't home.

M.E.: How else am I supposed to understand this whole thing aside from dying my skin black? Hey, there's an idea, I could call it "Black like M.E.".

Rene: You're not better than me. M.E.: I never said I was.

M.E.: I'm writing an article for the Birmingham Voice. Jimmy: About me? M.E.: About racism. Jimmy: What you call racism, I call New Patriotism.

Colliar: Nobody's going to get hurt, Mary Elizabeth. M.E.: They bombed her church, four of her friends died. A lot more's happening than just getting hurt, Colliar, and I hate it!