We Are Family (2001)

Toni Braxton: Juanita Slocumb

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Quotes 

• Juanita Slocumb : Charisse, honey, where is Junior?

  Charisse Slocumb : I don't know, ask Bernice Talbot.

  Juanita Slocumb : [laughs]  Girl, you so funny. You want some gum?

  Charisse Slocumb : [Coldly]  No thank you.

  Juanita Slocumb : I always crave a pack of sweet gum before weddings and funerals. I think it's something about the rhythm of it that sort of lulls me, helps my mind wander. You wanna know what I think about when my mind wanders?

  Charisse Slocumb : Well I'm sure you gon tell me.

  Juanita Slocumb : I think about my life. How at the end of each day I tuck my precious boy into bed. Turn off the lights in my $80,000 home. Crawl into my king-sized bed. And lie there and wonder. Where the hell my husband is.

  [pause] 

  Juanita Slocumb : You sure you don't want a piece?

  Charisse Slocumb : [Surprised. Takes a piece of gum]  Why don't you leave him?

  Juanita Slocumb : And go where? Charisse, I got everything I ever asked for.

  Charisse Slocumb : But if he really loves you...

  Juanita Slocumb : Then I might be forced into that God-awful position of having to love him back.

  [pause] 

  Juanita Slocumb : Do you love Junior?

  Charisse Slocumb : I just...

  Juanita Slocumb : [Interrupts]  No. Do you want him back?

  [pause] 

  Juanita Slocumb : You don't have to answer that honey. Just sit back and let the sweet gum take its effect. It'll come to you.

  Juanita Slocumb : Whew. Hot in here.