Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) quotes

The only thing I ever knew was cotton. It was hard work.

Cecil Gaines

You must look through your eyes, see what it is that they want, see what it is that they need, anticipate, bring a smile to the principal's eyes.

Cecil Gaines

America has always turned a blind eye to what we done to our own. We look out to the world and judge. We hear about the concentration camps but these camps went on for two hundred years right here in America.

Cecil Gaines