Big old ox like Grady won't sit next to a colored child, but he eats eggs. Shoot right outta chicken's ass.

— Sipsey (Cicely Tyson)

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6 seconds sound clip from the Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:00:19.182 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- What, Grady? He's harmless.

- You shoulda seen that big ox down by the river. Three solid days, drunk as a dog, crying like a baby, 'cause Joe, that old colored man that raised him, had died. Remember that, Sipsey?

- But he sure ain't joking now, is he, son?

- He won't even sit in the same room and have a meal today.

- Oh, it don't make no kind of sense.

- Big old ox like Grady won't sit next to a colored child, but he eats eggs. Shoot right outta chicken's ass.

- Come on, Smokey, let's go for a walk.

- I'm sorry about spilling my food in there, ma'am. I'll just head on.

- Do you see that piece of land over there? See it? That used to be a lake. Yeah.

- And this one November, all these ducks come by, and they landed on that lake.

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