Black Man With Watermelon: Re-member me.
Black Woman With Fried Drumstick: Re-member me.
In the final scene of the play this husband and wife as one another to remember them. It's heart and gut wrenching because you feel their love for one another, and at the same time know the truth: that he has been murdered horrifically and taken from her.
"You will write it all down because if ou dont write it down then we will come along and tell the future that we did not exist. You will write it down and you will carve it out of a rock."
This statement has great significance to the meaning of the play. It tells us the vital importance of recorded history, how the black man's story has not been told accurately because it hasn't been written down. This is a cry for the truth to be recorded so that it no longer is washed over with lies.
"LAND: HO!"
Before Columbus shouts this in the last scene of the play. It is significant because once Columbus has found land this means that the white man has been put in his place (the world is not flat, but round) and now that they are in their place they will seek to put the black man into their own "place": the horrific murders that are perpetrated against them by the white man.
