[C.C.:] Effie, Curtis was supposed to...
[Effie:] Love me. Curtis was supposed to love me.
[Curtis:] There you are Effie. I´ve been looking all over.
[Effie:] I turn my back and find myself out on the line. You could have warned me, but that would have been too kind!
[Curtis:] I´ve been warning you for months to clean up your act. You´ve been late; you´ve been mean; given all kinds of bullshit flack.
[Effie:] That´s a lie! That´s a lie! It´s just I haven´t been feeling that well.
[Curtis:] Effie, please. Stop excusing yourself. You´ve been late; you´ve been mean and getting fatter all the time.
[Effie:] Now you lying, lying; I never been so thin. You lying, lying, ´cause your knocking up that piece who thinks she´s better than everybody. She ain´t better than anybody, she ain´t nothing but common!
[Deena:] Now who you callin´ common you self-indulgent, self-absorbed and unprofessional...
[Effie:] You! I´m calling you, I´m calling you, the common piece is knocking off!
[Deena:] Now you listen to me, Miss Blame-It-On-The-World. See I put up with you for much too long. I have put up with your bitching, I´ve put up with your nagging, and all your screaming too!
[Lorelle:] Oh now when are you two gonna stop all this fighting?
[Effie:] Stay outta this Lorelle, this is between Deena and me!
[Lorelle:] Yeah, well it´s between me too! I am as much a part of this group as anybody else! And I´m tired, Effie I´m tired, of all the problems you´re making up!
[Effie:] I always knew you two were together!
[Lorelle:] What!
[Effie:] Always knew you two were ganging up on me!
[Deena:] She had nothing to do with this change. It was you! It was you always thinking of you. Always thinking of you!
[Curtis:] I knew you were trouble from the start.
[Effie:] Trouble?
[Curtis:] You were real bad trouble from the start!
[Effie:] Curtis, I´m your woman!
[Curtis:] You´re getting out now...I´m not building this group to have you tear it apart. Go ahead and rant and scream and shout. Don´t worry baby, I´ll buy you out.
[Effie:] There´s no money dirty enough to buy me out. You remember that, Curtis.
[C.C.:] Lay off Effie, just take the money and run.
[Effie:] You in this with them, C.C.?
[C.C.:] Cool it Effie, this time you know what you´ve done!
[Effie:] So they´ve got your black ass too, huh?
[C.C.:] I said cool it Effie, this time you´ve gone too far.
[Effie:] Oh I can go further, I can go further!
[Michelle:] I don´t wanna stay around this. I´m just breaking into this business. This is between all of you. This is none of my affair.
[Effie:] Yeah? Well it´s between you too now, little sister. This small job is just as much your sin. Look at me, look at me! How much did you put out to get in?
[Michelle:] Now you watch your mouth, watch your mouth, Ms. Effie White. ´Cause I don´t take that talk from no second-rate diva, who can´t sustain.
[Effie:] I´m not feeling well. I´ve got pains.
[Everyone:] Effie, we all got pains!
[Effie:] Oh! Is that alright also with you? I was your sister!
[Everyone:] You were trouble.
[Effie:] Now you´re telling me it´s all over?
[Everyone:] And now we´re telling you: it´s all over.
[Effie:] And now I´m telling you, I ain´t going!
[Everyone:] It´s all over.
[Effie:] I ain´t going!
[Everyone:] It´s all over.