Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Fences.
Troy: "The nigger has a watermelon this big....Talking about...'What watermelon, Mr. Rand?'...Trying to hide that great big old watermelon under his coat. Afraid to let the white man see him carry...
Rose: "What you all out here getting into?" Troy: "What you worried about what we getting into for? This is men talk, woman." (1.1.41-1.1.42)
Troy: "Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner." (1.1.82)
Rose: "Cory done went and got recruited by a college football team." (1.1.68)
Rose: "I told him if he wasn't the marrying kind, then move out the way so the marrying kind could find me." (1.1.50)
Bono: "I see where you be eyeing her." (1.1.20)
Troy: "I don't know why [Lyons] don't go and get him a decent job and take care of that woman he got." (1.1.168)
Troy: "All I want them to do is change the job description. Give everybody a chance to drive the truck." (1.1.15)