“I think next week I'll be able to send more money as I may have extra work. My friend Patty has promised me a blow job. Your loving son, Navin.”

Frances E. Williams - Grandma Johnson

“- Young Celie Harris: Write!
- Nettie Harris: What?
- Young Celie Harris: Write!
- Nettie Harris: Nothing but death can keep me from it!”
Desreta Jackson - Young Celie Harris
Akosua Busia - Nettie Harris

“- Tom Horn: Did you get the letter that is telling you to not come around here?
- Lee Mendenhour: I got your fucking letter, champion! I rolled it up in the back with tobacco and smoked it!”
Steve McQueen - Tom Horn
Roy Jenson - Lee Mendenhour

“Dear Susan: 1970 has now passed into 1971. You can drift in here and never know you're gone. You can fade so far out that you don't know where you are anymore or where anything else is.”
Brad Davis - Billy Hayes

“Hey, hey - I got an idea. Why don't you write a letter to the car? Dear car, I miss you so much.”

Annie Potts - Vanessa