Daniel Kaluuya Quotes

Fred Hampton That flag is some motherfuckin bullshit.

Bobby Rush Comrade. Take it easy, comrade.

Fesperman It's just up there to remind us of our Southern heritage.

Fred Hampton When I look at that, I don't see no flag hanging. I see my uncle hanging from a tree. And a bunch of white devils like y'all, smiling around his body.

OJ Haywood They took them. They took all of them.

Reggie Wayne Look at you. Your eyebrows are a mess.

Kate Macer No, they're not!

Reggie Wayne They're like caterpillars, like wild beasts. You're losing weight.

Kate Macer I'm eating.

Reggie Wayne Look at you. What is it, one T-shirt a week? At least work on your personal hygiene, huh?

Kate Macer You sound like my mother.

Reggie Wayne Maybe I am your mother. First we work on personal hygiene, then we move on to the shopping.

Fred Hampton Put a fist in the air for Comrade Jimmy Palmer. Jimmy Palmer died a revolutionary death. He stood face-to-face and toe-to-toe with pig Daley's henchmen, and made the greatest sacrifice one could ever make.

Fred Hampton The pigs do everything in their power to keep us isolated. Because they know, the day we get organized, it's over for their asses.

Fred Hampton The poet. What a pleasant surprise.

Deborah Johnson I saw your ad in the paper, lookin for a new speechwriter. I figured I'd better come lend a hand.

Fred Hampton Well, that must have been a misprint. See, I don't write speeches, sister. I just get up on stage and speak truth to the people.

Deborah Johnson Oh, it shows. The lack of preparation, that is.

Fred Hampton It got you here.

OJ Haywood I don't think they'd take you if you don't look at it.

Fred Hampton Our job as the Black Panther Party is to heighten the contradictions.

Fred Hampton Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed

T'Challa Kuthetha. (translation: "Speak.")

W'Kabi Speak.

Killmonger I'm standing in your house. Serving justice to a man who stole your vibranium and murdered your people. Justice your king couldn't deliver.

T'Challa I don't care that you brought Klaue. The only reason I don't kill you where you stand is because I know who you are. Now what do you want?

Killmonger I want the throne.

T'Challa And what tools are those?

Killmonger Vibranium. Your weapons.

T'Challa Our weapons will not be used to wage war on the world. It is not our way to be judge, jury and executioner for people who are not our own.

Killmonger Not your own? But didn't life start right here on this continent? So ain't all people your people?

T'Challa I am not king of all people. I am king of Wakanda. And it is my responsibility to make sure our people are safe and that vibranium does not fall into the hands of a person like you.

Ramonda Son, we have entertained this charlatan for too long. Reject his request.

Killmonger Oho, I ain't requestin nothin'. Ask who I am.

Shuri You are Erik Stevens. An American black operative. A mercenary nicknamed Killmonger. That's who you are.

T'Challa No.

Killmonger Ask me.

T'Challa Take him away.

River Tribe Elder Ungubani? (translation: "Who are you?")

Killmonger Indingu N'Jadaka! Unyanka N'Jobu! (translation: "I am N'Jadaka! Son of Prince N'Jobu!")

Zawavari Unyana ka N'Jobu? (translation: "Son of Prince N'Jobu?")

Killmonger I found my daddy with panther claws in his chest! You ain't the son of a king! You're the son of a murderer!

Ramonda U due Ku Disto! (translation: "You're lying!") Lies!

W'Kabi I'm afraid not, Queen Mother.

Killmonger Hey, Auntie. I'm exercising my blood right. The challenge for the mantles of king and Black Panther.

Ramonda Do not do this, T'Challa.

M'Kathu As the son of Prince N'Jobu, he is within his rights.

Ramonda He has no rights here!

River Tribe Elder The challenge will take weeks to prepare!

Ramonda T'Challa, what do you know of this?

T'Challa I accept your challenge.

Chris Washington Do they know... Do they know I'm black?

Rose Armitage No. Should they?

Chris Washington It seems like...something you might want to, you know...mention.

Rose Armitage Mom and Dad, my uh, my black boyfriend will be coming up this weekend, and I just don't want you to be shocked because he's a blackman." Black...

Chris Washington You said I was the first black guy you ever dated?

Rose Armitage Yeah, so what?

Chris Washington Yeah, so this is uncharted territory for them. You know I don't want to be chased off the lawn with a shotgun.

Rose Armitage You're not going to. First of all, my dad would have voted for ] a third time if he could have. Like, the love is so real. I'm only telling you that because he is definitely going to want to talk to you about that, and it will definitely fucking suck. But that's because he's a lame dad more than anything else. They are not racist. I would have told you. I wouldn't be bringing you home to them. Think about that for just two seconds.

Chris Washington I'm thinking. Yeah, yeah, yeah good.

Reggie Wayne A'right we good. Just don't keep us in the dark.

Alejandro You afraid of the dark?

Rod Williams I mean, I told you not to go in that house.

Chris Washington How you find me?

Rod Williams I'm T.S... motherfuckin'-A. We handle shit. That's what we do. Consider this situation... fuckin handled.

Fred Hampton What if the overseer had banded with the slaves and cut the master's throat? What then, comrade? We might not be in this funky-ass ghetto right now.

Dean Armitage And now for the piece de resistance. The field of play. I love it. The nearest house is across the lake. Total privacy. I know what you're thinking.

Chris Washington What?

Dean Armitage Come on, I get it. White family, black servants. It's a total cliché.

Chris Washington I wasn't going to take it there.

Dean Armitage Well you didn't have to, believe me. Now, we hired Georgina and Walter to help care for my parents. When they died I just couldn't bear to let them go. But boy, I hate how it looks.

Chris Washington Yeah, I know what you mean.

Dean Armitage By the way, I would have voted for ] for a third term if I could. Best president in my lifetime. Hands down.

Fred Hampton America's on fire right now and until the fire is extinguished don't nothin else mean a goddamn thing.

OJ Haywood What's a bad miracle? They got a word for that?

T'Challa I never yielded! And as you can see, I am not dead!

Killmonger All that challenge shit is over with. I'm the king now. Get those planes in the air, carry out the mission! W'Kabi! Man, kill this clown!

Okoye W'Kabi! The challenge is not complete!

Border Tribesman What will we do?

W'Kabi Border Tribe! Kill him!

Okoye You! Your heart is so full of hatred, you're not fit to be a king!

W'Kabi Would you kill me, my love?

Okoye For Wakanda? Without question!

Fred Hampton We ain't gonna fight capitalism with Black capitalism, we gonna fight capitalism with socialism.

Fred Hampton Malcolm X College, I can dig it. Dr. Charles Hurst, direct from Howard. Right on. So, what? You think the students over there gonna be free now? Oh, they'll let you change the name of your college, or your own name, throw on a dashiki. Cause guess what? They still gonna drag your Black ass to Vietnam to shoot a poor rice farmer or get shot your damn self. That's the difference between revolution and the candy-coated facade of gradual reform. Reform is just the masters teaching the slaves how to be better slaves. Under reform, you could take the motherfucking masters out, and the slaves still be doin all the work for em. There's a man called a capitalist. Don't matter what color he is, black, white, brown, red, don't matter. Because the capitalist has one goal. And that is to exploit the people. He can have on a three-piece suit or a dashiki, cause political power doesn't flow from the sleeve of a dashiki. Political power flows from the barrel of a gun. We in the Black Panther Party don't believe in no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you! Don't give me no five-and-dime costume of a medicine man or a witch doctor, or whatever you think the motherland look like. Give me the righteous threads of a Mozambican FRELIMO fighter.

Chris Washington He's different.

Rod Williams No shit! Why is he dressed like that?

Chris Washington It's not that, it's everything. He came to the party with a white woman like 30 years older than him.

Rod Williams Sex slave! Oh, shit! Chris, you gotta get the fuck up outta there, man! You in some ] situation. Leave, motherfuck -

Chris Washington No! Not the wires! Oh, great.

Missy Armitage How do you feel now?

Chris Washington I can't move.

Missy Armitage You can't move.

Chris Washington Why can't I move?

Missy Armitage You're paralyzed. Just like that day when you did nothing. You did nothing. Now...sink into the floor.

Chris Washington Wait, wait, wait-

Missy Armitage Sink... Now you're in the Sunken Place.

Fred Hampton Would you say we at war with the pigs, Comrade Palmer?

Jimmy Palmer Chairman, I'd take it a step further and say that every ghetto across the nation should be considered occupied territory.

Deborah Johnson Uh, your feet's cold. Why your feet so cold? No, get em off of me!

Fred Hampton My feet cold, your feet cold.

Deborah Johnson No, unless you... They're like...

Fred Hampton But that's Socialism, man. Well, you gotta warm em up, though. How you think Mao did the Long March, huh? The Chinese would warm these feet left and right.

Deborah Johnson You saying I'm a Foot Capitalist? You really gonna call me a Foot Capitalist, Chairman?

Deborah Johnson Thought your speech was... was really interesting.

Fred Hampton Well, thank you, sister.

Deborah Johnson Do you like poetry?

Fred Hampton I mean, it's cool, but as ] said... Words are beautiful, but action is supreme, you dig?

Deborah Johnson I dig. Right on. But you were up on that stage using words, so... Maybe next time, choose em a bit more carefully, instead of tearin down the folk who you call yourself recruitin', just because they demonstrate a little Black pride. But just so you know, you are a poet.

Fred Hampton Housing, justice, peace... Life, liberty, happiness. I mean, it's all right there in the Declaration of Independence. But when poor people demand it, it's a contradiction -- it's not Democracy, it's Socialism.

Fred Hampton So, if you were asked to make a commitment at age 20, and you said, I'm too young to die, then you're dead already! If you dare to struggle, you dare to win! If you dare not struggle, then, God damn it, you don't deserve to win!

Rod Williams I'm mad at you because you never take my advice.

Chris Washington Like what?

Rod Williams Like don't go to a white girl's parents house. What is she doin'? Lickin your balls or somethin'?

Tucker What are you doing, sir?

English Regulation 75-1, never question a senior agent in the field (jumps off the cliff) .

Fred Hampton There's strength in numbers. Power anywhere there's people.

Chris Washington Why us? Why black people?

Jim Hudson Who knows? People want to change. Some people want to be stronger...faster...cooler. Black is in fashion.

Fred Hampton You don't fight racism with racism. We gonna fight with solidarity.

Jeremy Armitage Yo man, where are you going? The party is just starting.

Chris Washington I'm just putting the bags in the car, man.

Missy Armitage Would anyone like tea?

Chris Washington No I'm good. We're leaving, actually.

Missy Armitage Really? Why? Is there something wrong?

Rose Armitage His dog got really sick, so he has to be at the vet first thing in the morning.

Chris Washington Sorry.

Missy Armitage How terrible.

Chris Washington Rose, the keys.

Rose Armitage I'm looking.

Dean Armitage What is your purpose, Chris?

Chris Washington What?

Dean Armitage In life. What is your purpose?

Chris Washington Right now it's finding those keys.

Dean Armitage Fire. It is a reflection of our own mortality. We are born, we breathe and then we die.

Rose Armitage I'm looking.

Dean Armitage Even the sun will die someday. But we are divine. We are the gods trapped in cocoons.

Rose Armitage I don't know where they are.

Chris Washington Rose, give me those keys. Give me those keys! Rose, now, now! The keys!

Jeremy Armitage Whoa, be careful, bro.

Chris Washington What the fuck?

Jeremy Armitage I didn't do anything.

Chris Washington What the fuck is going on? Where are those keys, Rose?

Rose Armitage You know I can't give you the keys, right babe?

Fred Hampton Drummer, lemme hear the people beat! This is what we call the people beat. Started in 1966 by ] and ]. It's the beat that manifests in you, the people. They can't never stop the party, unless they stop the people!

OJ Haywood They're going to come back. You ready? We got some work to do.

Chris Washington I didn't even want to tell you.

Rod Williams What?

Chris Washington I got hypnotized last night.

Rod Williams Nigga, get the fuck outta here!

Chris Washington No. Yo, yo, yeah it's to quit smoking. But Rose's mom's a psychiatrist, so ...

Rod Williams Bro I don't care if the bitch is ], okay? She can't fix my motherfucking life. You ain't getting in my head.

Chris Washington I know, she caught me off guard, right? But it's cool because... I'm cured. It worked!

Rod Williams Bro, how you not scared of this, man? Look they could have made you do all types of stupid shit. They have you fuckin barking like a dog. Flyin around like you a fuckin pigeon, lookin ridiculous. Okay? Or, I don't know if you know this. But, white people love making people sex slaves and shit.

Chris Washington Yeah I'm pretty sure they are not a kinky sex family, dog.

Rod Williams Look, ] was eating the shit out of niggas heads. Okay? But that was after he fucked the heads. Do you think they saw that shit coming? Hell no, okay? They were coming over there like "Imma suck a little dick, maybe jiggle some balls or shit." No. They didn't get a chance to jiggle shit because their heads was off their bodies. Yeah they still sucked the dick, but without their heads. It was weird detached heads shit. You know, that's Jeffrey Dahmer's business.

Chris Washington Thanks for that image right there, man.

Rod Williams Hey man, I'm not making this shit up. I saw it on ]. That is real life.

Chris Washington Yo, and the black people out here too. It seems like they all missed the movement.

Rod Williams It's because they probably hypnotized. Look bro, all I'm doin is connectin the dots. I'm takin what you presented to me, okay? I'm gonna tell you this, I think that mom is puttin everybody in a trance and she's fuckin the shit out of em.

Jim Hudson I used to dabble myself. Wilderness mostly. I submitted to ] 14 times before realizing I didn't have the eye. I began dealing. Then, of course, my vision went to shit.

Chris Washington Damn.

Jim Hudson I know. Life can be a sick joke. One day you're developing prints in the dark room and the next day you wake up - in the dark. Genetic disease.

Chris Washington Shit ain't fair, man.

Jim Hudson Oh, you got that right! Shit ain't fair.

Dean Armitage Here, you're going to love this. My Dad's claim to fame. He was beat by ] in the qualifying round for the ] in 1936. Those were the ones where...

Chris Washington Owens won in front of ].

Dean Armitage Yes, what a moment, what a moment. I mean, Hitler's up there with all his perfect Aryan race bullshit. This black dude comes along and proves him wrong in front of the entire whole world. Amazing.

Chris Washington Not great for your dad, though.

Dean Armitage Yeah. He almost got over it.

Kate Macer Are we going to Tucson?

Matt Graver Yeah, you gotta learn how to sleep on a plane. They let me on the base when you need a ride, don't they?

Reggie Wayne You okay?

Matt Graver She's fine.

Reggie Wayne I didn't ask you.

Matt Graver And yet I answered...

Fred Hampton It's not a question of violence or non-violence. It's a question of resistance to fascism or non-existence within fascism! You can murder a liberator, but you can't murder liberation. You can murder a revolutionary, but you can't murder a revolution. And you can murder a freedom fighter but you can't murder freedom! I am a revolutionary! I am a revolutionary! I am a revolutionary! I am a revolutionary! I don't believe I'm gonna die in no car wreck! I don't believe I'm gonna die slippin on no ice! I don't believe I'm gonna die cause I got a bad heart! I believe I'm gonna die doing what I was born for! I believe I'm gonna die high off the people! I'm gonna die for the people, cause I live for the people! I live for the people, cause I love the people!