- Title Card: One half the world doesn't know how the other half lives.
- Ralph Hathaway: A child of environment! - If she had the proper training, if she had been taught the finer things in life, the higher aims, the higher hopes, she would not be lying cold in death! - - Oh! our people have much to learn!
- Title Card: [Opening Title] ENVIRONMENT - - Surroundings, - - Childhood training and companions often is the deciding factor in our lives. - - It shapes our destinies and guides our ambitions. - - If early in life some knowing, loving hand, lights the lamp of knowledge and with tender care keeps it burning, then our course will run true 'til the end of our useful time on this earth, but, if that lamp should fail through lack of tender care, through lack of loving hands to feed its hungry flame - - then will come sorrow and SHAME!
- Alvin Hillyard: Dear, I cannot take you with me, I've never told mother of our marriage. You don't understand - Caste is one of the things mother is very determined about - - and you - - don't belong to our set!
- Alvin Hillyard: This is another instance of the injustices some of the women of our race are constantly subjected to, mainly through lack of knowledge of the higher aims in life.
- Louise Howard: That's Mr. Hillyard playing. - - Some day he will be the leading composer of our race.
- Eddie Blake: Spike, how's that daughter of your's? - - I ain't seen her in a couple of weeks, - - that baby is sure gettin' to be a swell looker!
- Eddie Blake: Where's old lady Green? Come on out in the hall, I got somethin' to say to you, and I don't want that old dame buttin' in!
- Eddie Blake: Baby, - - my offer still holds good, give this dicty sap you're hooked up to, the air and come with me to a live town and we'll make some real money!
- Louise Howard: And where do I come in on this?
- Eddie Blake: Fifty-fifty on the take!
- Louise Howard: Okay, boy friend - - but remember this is STRICTLY a business proposition, so don't start by getting familiar!
- Title Card: Louise Howard, a Rose of Sharon, whose music was all discords.
- Eddie Blake: Hot puppy! That trolley car sure swung a mean fist! - - Come on in, you look like you need a bracer!
- Eddie Blake: I was just tryin' to get her back to her old pappy. You ain't got no right to keep her away from him! I'm wise to you, big boy, you're just tryin' to make her yourself - - !
- Alvin Hillyard: You dirty dog! I'll teach you to have more respect for our women!
- 'Spike' Howard: Lay offa her, Eddie, I ain't treated her right, and all because of that lousy booze of yours, when I get full of that, I don't know what I'm doin'!
- Eddie Blake: You let her marry that sap, and now you expect me to be your licker ticket - - Go to Hell!
- Eddie Blake: You're goin' to help me get the gal away from that simp, then we'll blow this dump, beat it for a live town, open a swell cabaret, and with her looks and my brains we'll clean up!