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Mr Prentice's speech to his father: "Listen to me. You say you don't want to tell me how to live my life? What do you think you've been doing? You tell me what rights I've got or haven't got... and what I owe to you for what you've done for me. Let me tell you something. I owe you nothing. If you carried that bag a million miles, you did what you were supposed to do, because you brought me into this world, and from that day you owed me everything you could ever do for me. Like I will owe my son, if I ever have another. But you don't own me. You can't tell me when or where I'm out of line, or try to get me to live my life according to your rules.
You don't even know what I am, Dad. You don't know who I am, how I feel, what I think. And If I tried to explain it the rest of your life, you would never understand. You are years older than I am. You and your whole lousy generation believes the way it was for you is the way it's got to be! And not until your whole generation has lain down and died... will the deadweight of you off our backs! You understand? You've got to get off my back. Dad. You're my father. I'm your son, I love you. I always have and I always will. But you think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself... as a man."
