- Virgil Tibbs: I want to like you people; and I want you people to like me. But there can't be liking without respect, and until there is that respect you will call me MISTER TIBBS!
- Virgil Tibbs: You know Bubba had to hit him.
- Jamison: Like I always say, Bubba has all the fun around here!
- Parker: I got a call from Randy Calhoun.
- Bill Gillespie: Tell him we're closed.
- Parker: It's about a murder.
- Bill Gillespie: Did he commit it?
- Parker: I don't think so. I forgot to ask.
- Bill Gillespie: Well, that might have been an important question.
- J.J. Jeffson: Well, you know what the Lord says: "Go forth and multiply, and fill the earth."
- Bill Gillespie: But I don't think he meant for you to do that by yourself.
- Bill Gillespie: Yeah, the last time I caught you using my phone in here, the emergency was about some woman who was driving your car dressed in black lace underwear.
- Bubba Skinner: I wish there was some things you'd forget Chief.
- Virgil Tibbs: Ever since that woman came to town, Bubba
- [sigh]
- Virgil Tibbs: ... I think he's in over his head. She's a beautiful, sophisticated young woman and Bubba, well...
- Althea Tibbs: You can't understand what she sees in him.
- Virgil Tibbs: In a word, No.
- Althea Tibbs: Let me try to explain this to you Virgil. Bubba is a HUNK. He's manly, he's strong, he's considerate and just rippling with muscles.
- Virgil Tibbs: Althea, Althea, you're a married woman.
- Althea Tibbs: Hey I'm married, I'm not blind.
- Virgil Tibbs: Well, if Bubba's a hunk, what does that make me?
- Bill Gillespie: I'll stay here and round up a posse, in case I feel the need to cut anybody off at the pass.