Onyx Blackman quotes from Strangers with Candy

Noblet

[casually] So, what are you selling here?

Flowers. Do you need someone to love you?

Noblet

[breaking down instantly] Oh God, yes, desperately! I'm so lonely!

Would you like to come with us?

Noblet

I'll go anywhere you want and do anything you say! Just love me. Oh, I should tell you, I'm a plant. They're watching us. [points to where Blackman, Jellineck and Orlando are hiding] We're looking for Jerri. I'm her teacher and that's her principal - they don't know anything about love.

I don't think you can come with us.

Noblet

What? No! Please! I need you!

Blackman

[yelling] Noblet! What are you doing?!

Noblet

I'm sorry. I just wasn't prepared for that kind of onslaught.

Jellineck

Perhaps Chuck could get through to her. He was in the cult for 45 seconds, he knows.

Noblet

I'll try, but we'll need to be alone.

Blackman

All right, everybody out.

Noblet

Thank you. Thank you. [waits until everybody has left, then turns quickly to Jerri] Okay, Jerri, let's go!

Jerri

Where?

Noblet

[tugging on her arm] Back to the cult!

Jerri

How?

Noblet

[opening the furnace] Through the furnace and then out through the air shaft!

Jerri

We'll burn to death!

Noblet

Father will protect us! Where is your faith, woman?!

Blackman

Maybe you care to partner up. I happen to know plenty of mature, eligible men.

Sara

That's a very kind offer, Principal, but I strongly oppose racial commingling.

Blackman

I'm with you 100 percent, except, of course, for my uncontrollable desire for middle-aged white women.