Waiting to Exhale (1995)

Loretta Devine: Gloria

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• Gloria Matthews : Would you like to have dinner with us tonight? It's just leftovers. Collard greens and corn bread, some candied yams, a little potato salad, fried chicken, peach cobbler and a few slices of ham.

  Marvin King : I would love to, but I've got so much to do around here. Maybe some other time.

  Gloria Matthews : To be honest, I don't have no business eating any of it as big as I am.

  Marvin King : My wife was a big woman too. I like a woman with some meat on her bones.

• Gloria Matthews : Your father's coming home on Tuesday.

  Tarik Matthews : And? First of all, he ain't my father, he's my daddy; there's a big damn difference.