White Cargo (1942)

Bramwell Fletcher: Wilbur Ashley

Quotes 

• Wilbur Ashley : The natives have been looking at me lately, in a queer sort of way.

  Mr. Harry Witzel : Maybe they're wondering how you can walk without a spine.

• Wilbur Ashley : I'm just calm now and peaceful like.

  The Doctor : Like morphine beginning to take effect.

  The Reverend Dr. Roberts : Or the peace of the heart, after prayer.

• Skipper of the Congo Queen : Who do you think we see last trip back in Sierra Leone?

  Ted - First Mate of the Congo Queen : You know, that short, little Cleopatra.

  Wilbur Ashley : Tondelayo.

  The Doctor : Tondelayo.

  Mr. Harry Witzel : Tondelayo.

  Mr. Langford : Well, ha-ha-ha, who is this Tondelayo?

  Ted - First Mate of the Congo Queen : Oh, quite an eyeful if you should ask me.

  Skipper of the Congo Queen : Up to her tricks again at the convent. You should see the traders, what got religion just to get around there to take a squint at that half-bred.

  The Reverend Dr. Roberts : Its the hardest fight we have. As soon as we teach a few women to cook and sew and speak a few dozen words of our language, some white tries to turn her into his own advantage.

  Skipper of the Congo Queen : Why shouldn't he?

  The Reverend Dr. Roberts : Because the end is always in the beginning. Its always the whites that become the more degraded.