- Mason Morgan: These are all farming folk here, once upon a time, and if it's one thing they know it's the sky.
- Alice Walker: ALICE: I guess I never really realized it, since nobody farms here anymore.
- Alice Walker: There's just that one gigantic plantation, what's it called? You ever been past there? Their obnoxious signage looming over us on the one main road in the county, you know? I mean, gimme a break. We get it, you and your machines work here.
- Mason Morgan: I live there.
- Mason Morgan: ...So you're an architecture student then? Y'all are all into building on the cheap using student labor and reclaimed material. Part of your program or something. Right on, good for you.
- Jim: Muni buildings, this firehouse too. Can you believe just a bunch of students put all this together. Pretty amazing the more you think about it.
- Patrice Parker: See that! They're changing our home, the place we come from! And, listenin' to you spout on... you sound like you drinkin' some Kool-Aid something like.
- Jim: I mean, I don't think it's all so bad. You make like they're demolishing us for no good. They're building us better buildings so we can have better lives.
- Patrice Parker: Who are they to tell us?... This is our identity!
- Patrice Parker: ...Mr. Morgan, just let me out of the truck.
- Mason Morgan: I'm Mason, not Mr. Morgan.
- Patrice Parker: ...I ain't talkin' about yo daddy right now. Got other things on my plate.
- Mason Morgan: Like one missing truck, one bad attitude, and one beat down broke down niece.
- Patrice Parker: The f*ck you're gonna talk to me about my niece.
- Ruth Parker: It's like, what if it's this guy and he likes that guy, and he likes him back? How come that's not treated the same? Why's it gotta feel so different to everyone?
- Alice Walker: I'm so glad your parochial surroundings haven't made you a more narrow minded person, Ruth.
- Alice Walker: I love him.
- Patrice Parker: You love him? You lo-ove him! Aw shit, can't get the girl outta Hale now. She gonna get all stunted like my Ruth.
- Alice Walker: You're a monster, Patrice. Look who you've turned into.
- Patrice Parker: There you go! Talk like you know who I am, like you've grown up with me or somethin'.
- Alice Walker: Well, what did you do all day?
- Mason Morgan: Read, ran, played with the dog.
- Alice Walker: ...Isn't that what you do every day? I just think it's frivolous to read day in and day out with no action.
- Mason Morgan: ...I'm an economist, it's what I do.
- Alice Walker: "I'm an economist, it's what I do."
- Mason Morgan: Seriously. I just got my Ph.D... Yeah. It's Dr. Mason Morgan to you, from now on. Definitely.
- Alice Walker: ...Yeah, you don't share, huh? You're a selective sharer. You cut your sharing short, you're a share cropper.
- Patrice Parker: No matter how many of your buildings you make, you'll never be from here, you'll never make your mark here. I'm all Hale, you will never take that away from me.