“Marion Smithson: West Virginia Collegiate Institute is the best school for Negroes in the state. Ms. Sumner: It’s the only school past the eighth grade anywhere near here. [we see young Katherine sitting outside talking to herself as she does math calculations] Young Katherine Coleman: Isosceles. Sc…”
— Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi, Marion Smithson (as G. Williams), Gregory Alan Williams, imdb.com