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	Season 6 / Episode 10: - The Witness James 'J.J.' Evans Jr.: Sweets, this can't be a social call. Sweet Daddy: Why not, J.J.? James 'J.J.' Evans Jr.: You mean it is? Sweet Daddy: Naw! James 'J.J.' Evans Jr.: I didn't think so. Sweet Daddy: But, Sweet Daddy is mad, and is very upset that you don't think of me as just 'plain folk'. James 'J.J.' Evans Jr.: Well, Sweets it's hard to think of some people as plain folks, like Jack The Ripper, Attilah The Hun, Darth Vader! Sweet Daddy: Boy, don't you be calling me no Darth Vader, boy! [Sweet Daddy grabs J.J. and starts to shake him] Willona: [yells] Hey! Penny: [Penny runs up to Sweet Daddy] You let go of J.J.! [Penny kicks Sweet Daddy on his ankle] Sweet Daddy: Owww! Oh lord! I sure hope she didn't hit a diamond [Sweet Daddy pulls up his pants leg, and nurses a jewel encrusted ankle bracelet] Willona: Penny! Penny, I'm shocked at you! Nice young ladies don't go around kicking other people! Sweet Daddy: Right On! Willona: But, a pointy headed orangutang is [snaps her fingers] cool with Mama! [to Sweet Daddy's bodyguards, who are blocking the front door] Move, goons! [Penny pushes past them]
	Season 6 / Episode 10: - The Witness Bookman: Ms. Woods, you've got enough food in there to feed the entire Italian Navy! Willona: [points at Bookman's stomach] You've got enough fat in there to sink the entire Italian Navy!
	Season 6 / Episode 6: - Stomach Mumps Florida: [about Willona] What is wrong with that woman? Doesn't she know that every year, one million teenaged girls get pregnant in the country? J.J.: Imagine how many get pregnant in the city. Florida: J.J., out of that million, over 13,000 are ages 14 and under. It's a sad day when kids have to guess about sex because their parents are too scared to explain it to them.
	Season 6 / Episode 6: - Stomach Mumps Willona: [about Penny] If I tell her about sex before she's ready she'll go out and do it. Florida: Since when did knowing about sex make kids rush into it? It's not knowing that does it.
	Season 6 / Episode 6: - Stomach Mumps Florida Evans: [Willona refuses to talk to 13 year old Penny about sex, even though her friend is pregnant] Girl, look around, this isn't a finishing school, it's the ghetto! If you don't tell Penny about it she'll pick it up from the street, she's going to hear it wrong and from the wrong people.
	Season 5 / Episode 16: - Where There's Smoke Michael: Penny, what's wrong? You look a little humdrum. Just between us, did you eat any of Thlema's soup? Thelma: [Thelma re-enters the living room] Hey, I heard that, buddy! Just for that, you're not getting any dinner! Michael: You promise?
	Season 5 / Episode 16: - Where There's Smoke Michael: What's wrong, Penny? You look a little hum-drum! [Hushed] Between you, and me, did you have any of Thelma's soup? Thelma: I heard that, buddy! Just for that, you're not getting any dinner! Michael: You promise?
	Season 5 / Episode 15: - J.J. and the Boss' Daughter J.J. Evans: J.J., the Mississippi river doesn't flow through New Jersey, and Texas should be bigger, and South Dakota should be next to North Dakota. Valerie, you may be the boss' daughter, but around here, I'm the boss.
	Season 5 / Episode 12: - Penny's Christmas Penny: [Willona's mad at Penny for shoplifting] I'm just glad I don't have to spend Christmas in the slammer.
	Season 5 / Episode 2: - The Evans Get Involved (2) Dr. Blake: [Willona brings Penny to see a doctor for her abuse wounds] Hello there sweetheart, what's your name? Willona: Willona Woods!
	Season 5 / Episode 2: - The Evans Get Involved (2) James 'J.J.' Evans, Jr.: ...my name is J.J. Evans, M.D. Nurse: Doctor of Medicine? James 'J.J.' Evans, Jr.: Dazzler of Mademoiselles!
	Season 5 / Episode 1: - The Evans Get Involved (1) Thelma: [Willona opens the back of Penny's dress, revealing her back's covered in bruises] Oh no! Willona: Wha - what happened? Penny: [turning around quickly] Uh, I fell, I always fall, my feet are all thumbs. Willona: Baby, come here. Now I know you like to make up stories, but I need you to tell me the truth. Who gave you those bruises? Baby, who did those awful things to you? Lenella Gordon: [enters and sees Penny's dress open] What's going on? Penny: [turns around] I didn't tell them a thing, momma, honest I didn't. [goes to her mother] Lenella Gordon: [hastily ties up Penny's dress and trying to act innocent] What would you have to tell them, sweetheart?
	Season 4 / Episode 4: - Michael, the Warlord Mr. Parker: [puts peanuts on the table] These peanuts are the Junior Warlords, and this [picks up a book] this is us. [smashes the peanuts]
	Season 4 / Episode 4: - Michael, the Warlord Thelma Evans: What's a jacket doing in the oven? James 'J.J.' Evans, Jr.: I don't know, beats me, first we're picking cotton, now we're cooking it.
	Season 4 / Episode 4: - Michael, the Warlord Mr. Parker: The Junior Warlords are getting an A in violence, vandalizing the school, threatening teachers, beating up students.
	Season 4 / Episode 4: - Michael, the Warlord Florida Evans: He's having labor troubles and she's having labor pains. Clara: This will be her ninth. Florida Evans: That woman's had more deliveries than Chicken Delight.
	Season 4 / Episode 4: - Michael, the Warlord Florida Evans: Mr. Parker, we are concerned parents, not vigilantes. Mr. Parker: We need to be both, somebody's got to do something about those Junior Warlords, the school can't and the law won't.
	Season 3 / Episode 2: - The Family Gun Officer Wigmore: We're making sure that law enforcement is the same here in Chocolate City as it is out in the Vanilla Suburbs. J.J.: Yeah, but in the Vanilla Suburbs the cops come in two scoops, whipped cream and a cherry. All we get here is sprinkled nuts.
	Season 2 / Episode 9: - The Gang (1) Mad Dog: What's your name, sweet thing? Thelma: My name is Thelma. Mad Dog: THELMA? Where did you get a name like that from? Thelma: When I was born my mother took one look at me and called me Thelma. Just like when you were born your mother took one look at you and called you MAD DOG!
	Season 2 / Episode 7: - The I.Q. Test Florida Evans: [J.J. painted a picture of Michael] Why'd you paint him in a nightgown? James 'J.J.' Evans, Jr.: That's no nightgown, that's a Supreme Court judge's robe. Florida Evans: Why's it purple? James 'J.J.' Evans, Jr.: That purple symbolizes something. James Evans, Sr.: What's it symbolize? James 'J.J.' Evans, Jr.: It symbolizes that I ran out of black paint.
	Season 2 / Episode 7: - The I.Q. Test Willona Woods: I'm going to pick up his cake. Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, with chocolate cream with "Power to the People" spelled out in chocolate chips.
	Season 2 / Episode 7: - The I.Q. Test Michael Evans: One question asked "a mother, father and two children live in a residence with 5 bedrooms. The mother and father sleep in one bed and the two children each have their own bedroom. How many guest bedrooms are there?" How many kids in the ghetto are going to know what a guest bedroom is? James 'J.J.' Evans, Jr.: Yeah, the only time we get a guest room around here is when somebody puts a sleeping bag in the bathtub. Florida Evans: And a lot of kids in the ghetto don't have their own bedrooms either.
	Season 2 / Episode 7: - The I.Q. Test Donald Hargrove: [when asked what TCB means] Even I can answer that. 'That's cool, baby!' James Evans, Sr.: That's wrong, baby!
	Season 2 / Episode 7: - The I.Q. Test James 'J.J.' Evans, Jr.: [Thelma hits J.J] [points] Hey Ma, you see that? Thelma Evans: [mocking J.J] [points] Hey Ma, you see that? James Evans, Sr.: Hey Junior, you see this? [raises fist]
	Season 1 / Episode 9: - The Visitor Mr. Stonehurst: Somebody's getting mugged on the 14th floor! JJ: You lucky the mugger was busy, otherwise, you'd a been the muggee.
	Season 1 / Episode 9: - The Visitor James: [Mr Stonehurst needs to take some aspirin] Say, how about washing them down with a little muscatel? Mr. Stonehurst: Muscatel? J.J.: Yeah, that's the champagne of the people. It don't sparkle, it don't bubble. It just kind of... lays there.
	Unknown Episode: Thelma: Hey, that's weird. It's gone. Now I know that cake was in here this morning.
	Unknown Episode: J.J.: Looking for dead roaches. Because if they ate that cake, they couldn't got too far.
	Unknown Episode: James: We are poor, and poor is one of three things people don't want to be. Right next to sick, and dead.
	Unknown Episode: J.J.: Around here, we've got something more powerful than Drano. See, all we do is hang a picture of Thelma's face over the drain, and the clog goes away. We call it: Thelmo. Thelma: Yes, and when it's really clogged, we have to use the snake, so we send J.J. down there personally.

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