Movie Dialogue: Sunshine State (John Sayles)

Remember Clarence Green? Used to work in the kitchen. He'd be back there. I'd come in, "Morning, Clarence." "Morning, Mr. Furman," he'd say. -They don't call you like that no more. -Not for a long time, Daddy. I said that if integration comes... ...I was gonna close up. One day, there it is. Four of them. Young, polite. Sitting in a booth... ...waiting for my girls to serve them. Clarence was in the back trembling like a leaf. Didn't know how I was gonna react. I said, "What do you think, Clarence?" He said, "Well, Mr. Furman... ...I reckon if you serve them this one time, they ain't coming back." "How's that?" I said. "Excuse me for saying it, Mr. Furman. But the food is a lot better down at Buster's Place." You spend a lot of time worrying about a day coming. Then when it does, it ain't so bad.