Directed by - Jonathan Demme

Writing credits - Adam Brooks and Akousa Busia

Actors/Actresses -
Oprah Winfrey - Sethe
Danny Glover - Paul D
Thandie Newton - Beloved
Kimberly Elise - Denver
Beah Richards - Baby Suggs

QUOTE 1

Sethe - "Paul? Paul D? Is that you?
Paul D - "What's left. How you been girl? Besides barefoot."

QUOTE 2

Paul D - "Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard."
Sethe - "Soft as cream. Living was the hard part."

QUOTE 3

Paul D - "Good God girl, what kind of evil you got in there?"
Sethe - "It ain't evil, just sad. Come on, step up."

QUOTE 4

Denver - "We have a ghost here, you know."
Paul D - "We met."

QUOTE 5

Sethe - "I got a tree on my back and hate in my house and my daughter in my arms. Ain't nobody moving anywhere."

QUOTE 6

Paul D - "What tree Sethe? I don't see anything growing on your back."

QUOTE 7

Sethe - "And they took my milk..."
Paul D - "And they beat you when you was pregnant?"
Sethe - "And they took my milk..."

QUOTE 8

Paul D - "Best thing is to love everything just a little bit, that way if it breaks or runs off you might have just a little bit of love left over."

QUOTE 9

Sethe - "Are you from around here? What might your name be?"
Beloved - "B - E - L - O - V - E - D. Beloved."
Sethe - "That's a pretty name Beloved. Why don't you rest yourself while I fix something for us. We just got back from the carnival in Cincinnati."

QUOTE 10

Beloved - "I want you to touch me on the inside part and call my name."

QUOTE 11

Baby Suggs - "Oh my people, they do not love your hands. Those they only use to bind, chop off and leave empty. Love your hands. Raise them up and kiss them. Ha, ha, ha, ha!"

QUOTE 12

Sethe - "28 days of freedom and on the 29th day it was over."

QUOTE 13

Paul D - "Your love is too thick, Sethe."

QUOTE 14

Sethe - "So long Paul D."

QUOTE 15

Sethe - "I made that song up. I made it up and sang it to my children. No one knows that song but me and my children."

QUOTE 16

Denver - "Paul D, you don't have to stay away but you watch how you talk to my mother."

QUOTE 17

Sethe - "Paul...she's my best thing."
Paul D - "You are your best thing. You are."