Showgirl: So, honeychile, you had a mammy!
Sarah Jane: Yes. All my life.


--Susan Kohner (as ) in Imitation of Life

Annie: I'd be happy knowin' you're meetin' nice young folk...
Sarah Jane: Busboys! Cooks! Chauffeurs!
[Hmph]
Sarah Jane: Like Hawkins. No thank you; I've seen your "nice young folk".
Annie: I don't wanna fight with you, honey. Not tonight. I don't feel too good. While I get started on the anchovies, will you take this tray in to Miss Lora and her friends?
Sarah Jane: [sarcastic] Why, certainly. Anything at all for Miss Lora and her friends.


--Susan Kohner (as ) in Imitation of Life

Sarah Jane: [to mother Annie] I wouldn't be caught dead in a colored teachers' college!


--Susan Kohner (as ) in Imitation of Life

Sarah Jane: I'm somebody else. I'm white... white... WHITE!


--Susan Kohner (as ) in Imitation of Life

Sarah Jane: I'm someone else. I'm white... white... WHITE!


--Susan Kohner (as ) in Imitation of Life

Sarah Jane: Miss Lora, you don't know what it means to be... different...


--Susan Kohner (as ) in Imitation of Life

[Sarah Jane enters carrying a serving tray on her head]
Sarah Jane: [affected Southern Negro accent] Fetched y'all up a mess 'a crawdads, Miss Lora... fo' you an' yo' friends!
Lora: Well, that's quite a trick, Sarah Jane... where did you learn it?
Sarah Jane: [affected Southern Negro accent] Oh, 'tain't no trick ta' totin', Miss Lora! I learned it from my mammy, an' she learned it from ol' massa, 'fo' she belonged to you...


--Susan Kohner (as ) in Imitation of Life