“Right" he said "Let's get one thing clear. I am not here to teach you law-I am here to teach you loopholes.”
“But one of the things I have learned during the time I have spent in the United States is an old African American saying: Each one, teach one. I want to believe that I am here to teach one and, more, that there is one here who is meant to teach me. And if we each one teach one, we will make a difference.”
“No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.”
“And yet I cannot be myself. You teach me all these things and then you put me here to pretend to be something I am not, while she is center stage, doing exactly what she does.”
“Finally he said, "I am sorry for it. His mama didn't teach him right." My mama didn't teach me right either, I thought, and I don't act that way. I kept rocking.”
“Scratch what I said before. I think I am falling in love with you. Right here. Right now.”