- Clifton Chenier: If you want to be somethin', be somethin'. And if you gonna be nothin', be nothin'.
- Clifton Chenier: [singing] There's two kind of people that I just can't stand, A lyin' woman and a sneaky man, Don't you lie to me, Don't you lie to me, You make me mad when you love another man the best...
- Self - Barber: We not no white people. We not no black people. We are American people! That's what we are. American people.
- Clifton Chenier: "I'm Coming Home" - well, you see, that's a record I recorded before my mother died. See, I recorded it before she died. See, I'm coming back home. And, you recall, I said in the record, I said, "I'm coming back home and meet my dear old mother, Because that's where I belong." And it says, "I'm coming back home, Meet my mother, Because that's one woman." You understand? "That's one woman, I know *she* love me, 'Cause, I'm *her* son." She got to love me. But, she died before she had a chance to hear it.
- Clifton Chenier: [singing] I'm a hog for you baby, And I'm gonna root around your door, I said I'm a hog for you, And I'm gonna root around your door, I'm gonna keep on rootin', rootin' around, Til you gonna tell me, You gonna love me some more...
- Clifton Chenier: He say, "See that old nigger there, don't have nothing to do with him! He say he have electric fingers! He say that all the time! Watch, I'll ask him. 'Cliff, what kind of fingers you got?'" I say, "I have electric fingers." He say, "What I tell you?"