- [Momma Sykes suspects a tenant in the building killed her boss]
- Momma Sykes: I need you to search all the apartments while you're cleaning up.
- 1st Maid: I can't conduct a search and do my job, both!
- Momma Sykes: Woman, if you can clean and watch daytime TV, you can clean and search!
- [Mama Sykes and her son are talking at the police station]
- Sgt. Alvin Sykes: I'm worried about you, mama.
- Momma Sykes: NOBODY'S gonna kill ME! Your father tried that a couple times and even he couldn't do it.