Lillian: I'm telling you exactly what they said at the courthouse... There's no record of you owning this land!
Bessie: What do you call this? My mama's granddad was a sharecropper on this land. He bought it from the man that owned it... Paid him a little each month till it was his, free and clear. The proof's right here. I got a map, too. Here is the boundary between us and the neighbor's. Goes from the creek to the rock pile to the walnut tree... The tree's gone, but you can still see the stump.
Lillian: Yeah, I-I don't think the county is gonna accept that.
Bessie: Why'd you need to get the government involved?! Next thing you know, they're gonna make us pay taxes!
Lillian: I'm gon' pretend like I didn't just hear that.