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Ernestine and Ermina, sisters and frequently opposites, but as close as best friends, are on one of their occasional adventures out to see the new city their father has brought them to. Their language is evolving as Brooklyn takes its influence, and so are the morals and opinions of each growing young women. Even as they clash, in action and in thought, they remain firm allies in the eye of a small family storm. Together, they interact with ideas of romantic entanglements, the politics of race
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Start: Ermina: Scat cat, hip, jive, cool baby, dip dive. Be bop, shoo bop, de dap, de dop. Give me some skin, babe. Far out sweet daddy. Hang tight, hang loose, dig this, out of sight, take it easy you're blowing my mind, everything is copasetic, the most, gonest, funky! Ernestine: [to the audience] Ermina is discovering the language of the city.
End: Ermina: I hate it up here! Nothing seems like it should be. Nothing! It ain't normal for a white lady to be living in a house with colored folks. She don't even cook right.
For full scene, please refer to the script edition cited here: Nottage, Lynn, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Dramatists Play Service, 1998, pp. 33-35.
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