Denzel Washington Quotes

Cry Freedom

The Struggles of Identity and Survival

Steve Biko It's a miracle a child survives here at all. People are so desperate for anything they'll beat a kid bloody if they thought he had five Rand. But if you do run fast enough, if you do survive, you grew up in these streets, these houses. Your parents try, but in the end, you only get the education the white man will give you. Then you go to the city to work or shop, and you see their streets, their cars, their houses, and you begin to feel there is something not quite right about yourself. About your humanity. Something to do with your blackness because no matter how smart or dumb a white child is he is born to that world. And you, a black child, smart or dumb you are born into this. And smart or dumb you die in it.

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Devil in a Blue Dress

Embracing Danger and Freedom in Life

Easy Rawlins It was actually looking more and more like I might not make it through this little adventure I was having. But I was likin the chill in my blood, and the freedom of working on my own. There were times in the war when I had felt like this. When life or death where the only two choices. That made it simple. And that was alright by me.

[voiceover]

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Philadelphia

The Emotional Power of Opera

Andrew Beckett Do you like opera?

Joe Miller I'm not that familiar with opera.

Andrew Beckett This is my favorite aria. This is Maria Callas. This is "Andrea Chenier", Umberto Giordano. This is Madeleine. She's saying how during the French Revolution, a mob set fire to her house, and her mother died... saving her. "Look, the place that cradled me is burning." Can you hear the heartache in her voice? Can you feel it, Joe? In come the strings, and it changes everything. The music fills with a hope, and that'll change again. Listen... listen..."I bring sorrow to those who love me." Oh, that single cello! "It was during this sorrow that love came to me." A voice filled with harmony. It says, "Live still, I am life. Heaven is in your eyes. Is everything around you just the blood and mud? I am divine. I am oblivion. I am the god... that comes down from the heavens, and makes of the Earth a heaven. I am love!... I am love.

Andrew Beckett Miguel, I'm ready.

[his last lines, while lying on a hospital bed and before he dies]

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The Pelican Brief

Threats Against a Justice's Life

Justice Rosenberg Any of those signs got my name on em?

Gray Grantham Quite a few.

Justice Rosenberg What do they say?

Gray Grantham The usual: Death to Rosenberg, Retire Rosenberg, Cut off the oxygen.

Justice Rosenberg That's my favorite. Of course you, Mr Grantham, did pretty good by me your last time out: Rosenberg equals the government over business, the individual over government, the environment over everything. And the Indians? Oh, give em whatever they want.

[laughs]

Gray Grantham Well with all due respects sir, that wasn't my line, that was a quote.

Justice Rosenberg From one of your unnamed senior White House officials; senior White House son of a bitch I should have said, who got in there by stirring up these people, one against the other. It never fails to amaze me what a man will do to get into the Oval Office.

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Ricochet

Truth and Deception in Relationships

Alice Styles You lied to me.

Nick Styles I didn't lie to you. I just didn't tell the whole truth.

Alice Styles You're such a lawyer.

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Training Day

Confrontation Over Consequences and Choices

Alonzo I'm gonna get that gun and then Imma get that money. And you ain't gonna do a damn thing, cause you ain't gonna shoot no cop in the back, are you?

Jake Don't do it.

[Cocks gun]

Alonzo You know what they give you for that? The gas chamber. You know what the gas chamber smells like? Pine oil. That's where you headed, boy. To pine oil heaven.

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The Book of Eli

Curiosity About the Book Unfolds

Eli What are you doing?

[Wakes up, grabs Solara's arm as she digs through his backpack]

Solara I'm sorry, I thought you were asleep.

Eli I wasn't asleep. Now, what are you doing?

Solara I just wanted to see the book.

Eli No one touches the book but me. You understand? Do you understand?

Solara Yes, I understand.

Eli Alright then, go to sleep.

Eli You says you don't know how to read anyway, so it's no use to you.

Solara Yeah. So teach me.

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American Gangster

The Importance of Brand Trust

Frank Lucas Brand names mean something, ]. Consumers rely on them to know what they’re getting. They know the company isn’t going to try to fool them with an inferior product. They buy a Ford, they know they’re gonna get a Ford. Not a fuckin Datsun. Blue Magic that's a brand name; Like Pepsi, that's a brand name. I stand behind it, I guarantee it. They know that even if they don’t know me any more than they know the chairman of General Mills.

[[w:Nicky Barnes|Nicky]

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Devil in a Blue Dress

Reflections on Relationships and Physical Ailments

Easy Rawlins I'd been thinking about Daphne, too...wondering if she meant what she said about what could have happened between us. But at the moment I was wondering if there was any such thing as a sprained chin. But other than that and a headache, a loose tooth and a kidney that a doctor would need to look at, I felt like five thousand, three hundred dollars. And unless Albright was alive somewhere, that feelin was gonna last a while.

[voiceover]

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Malcolm X

Unity Beyond Race and Religion

Malcolm X You may be shocked by these words, but I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass and prayed to the same God with fellow Muslims whose eyes were blue, whose hair was blond and whose skin was the whitest of whites. And we are brothers, truly; people of all colors and races believing in One God and one humanity. Once before, in prison, the truth came and blinded me. It has happened again...In the past, I have permitted myself to be used to make sweeping indictments of all white people, and these generalizations have caused injuries to some white folks who did not deserve them. Because of the spiritual rebirth which I was blessed to undergo as a result of my pilgrimage to the Holy City of Mecca, I no longer subscribe to sweeping indictments of one race. I intend to be careful not to sentence anyone who has not been proven guilty. I'm not a racist and do not subscribe to any of the tenets of racism. In all honesty and sincerity it can be stated that I wish nothing but freedom, justice and equality: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all people.My first concern, of course, is with the group to which I belong, the Afro-Americans, for we, more than any other, are deprived of these inalienable rights. I believe the true practice of Islam can remove the cancer of racism from the hearts and souls of white Americans.

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The Pelican Brief

Seeking Darby Shaw Amidst Chaos

Edwin Newman Where is Darby Shaw?

Gray Grantham I think that's also a question for Darby Shaw, but I know that she's not available to answer questions as long as this "feeding frenzy" continues.

Edwin Newman Does that mean that you don't know where she is?

Gray Grantham No, I didn't say that.

Edwin Newman Then you do know...

Edwin Newman I, I take it this cryptic smile means you'll not answer...

Edwin Newman Okay Gray, you know that in view of all this, you know that there's a lot of speculation that this woman is a figment of your imagination. That you created her, from a lot of different sources. Just as there are people who believe there was no Deep Throat, there are those who believe that there is no Darby Shaw. In other words, she's just too good to be true.

Gray Grantham She almost is.

[pause]

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The Book of Eli

Miscommunication in a Tense Situation

Leader What are you standing around for? kiss him

Hijacker What'd he say?

Eli He's in shock. I think he meant "Kill him.

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Malcolm X

Trapped by the American Social Order

Malcolm X Like every hustler I was trapped. Cats that hung out together trying to find a solution found nothing. Cats that might have proved space or cured cancer, West Indian Archie might have been a mathematical genius... but we were all victims of the American social order.

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Devil in a Blue Dress

The Choice of Involvement

DeWitt Albright One thing I like about working for myself...I always have a bottle on the table. You wanna drink with me? Fine. You don't? Door's right behind you. Joppy tells me you're a war hero. Said you went in with Patton.

DeWitt Albright So, you want the job?

Easy Rawlins Depends on what kind of job. I don't want to get mixed up in nothing.

DeWitt Albright Walk out the door in the morning, Easy, and you're mixed up in something. Only thing that matters is if you're mixed up to the top or not.

Easy Rawlins I mean I don't wanna get mixed up with the law...

DeWitt Albright Neither one of us wants to get mixed up in that. That's just rich people trying to keep me and you in our place. I'm looking for somebody for a friend.

[he laughs]

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The Equalizer

Confronting Corruption in Law Enforcement

Robert McCall * To a corrupt policeman.

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Malcolm X

The Need for Complete Separation in America

Malcolm X If the so-called Negro were American citizens we wouldn't have a race problem. If the ] was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem. If the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem. If the Supreme Court desegregation decision was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem. All of this is hypocrisy. These Negro leaders have been telling the white man everything is all right, everything is under control. And they've been telling the white man that Mr. Muhammad is wrong, don't listen to him. But everything Mr. Muhammad has been saying is going to come to pass is now coming to pass and now the Negro leaders are standing up saying that we are about to have a racial explosion. We're going to have a racial explosion and that's more dangerous than an atomic explosion. It's going to explode because black people are dissatisfied. They're dissatisfied now not only with the white man, but with these Negroes who have been sitting around here posing as leaders and spokesmen for black people. Anytime you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode and if the thing that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed. So the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is telling the white man get this powder keg out of your house, let the black people in this country separate from him while there's still time. And if the black man is allowed to separate and go on onto some land of his own, where he can solve his problems, then there won't be any explosion. Complete separation is the only solution to the black and white problem in this country!

[[w:Emancipation Proclamation|Emancipation Proclamation]

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Ricochet

A Moment of Realization

Nick Styles Jesus Christ.

Earl Talbott Blake Almost.

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Cry Freedom

Challenging Perceptions of Racial Inferiority

Steve Biko When I was a student, trying to qualify for the jobs you people will let us have, I suddenly realized that it wasn't just good jobs that were white. The only history we read was made by the white man, written by the white man. Television, cars, medicines - all invented by the white man, even football. Now the way like that, it's not hard to believe there's something inferior about being born black. I began to think this idea of inferiority was an even bigger problem for us than what the Afrikaans were doing to us. At first a black man had to believe he had as much capacity to be a doctor, a leader, as a white man.

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Training Day

Moral Dilemmas in Law Enforcement

Alonzo It behooves you not to dick around on this one. Justifiable homicide in the line of duty? What happened was...

Jake What happened was murder... and armed robbery. Wait, we had badges, so it's different?

Alonzo Open your eyes, son. Can't you see?

Jake That man was your friend, and you killed him like a fly.

Alonzo Why is he my friend, because he knows my first name? Roger sold dope to kids. The world is a better place without him. This man was the biggest major violator in Los Angeles. This is the game. I'm playing his ass. That's my job. That's your job. I watched that cocksucker operate with impunity for over 10 years, and now I got him. The shit's chess, it ain't checkers. What, we all of a sudden gonna roll up in a black-and-white? Come on, man, take the money.

Jake I told you, I'm *not* gonna take that money.

Alonzo All right, burn it, barbecue it, fish-fry it, I don't give a fuck. But the boys'll feel better about it.

Jake *Fuck* their feelings.

Alonzo You're not making them feel like you're part of the team.

Jake The team? You guys are fuckin insane. All right, I'll go back to the Valley. I'll cut parking tickets. Why does it have to be this way?

Alonzo I'm sorry I exposed you to it, but it is. It's ugly, but it's necessary... Sometimes you gotta have a little dirt on you for anybody to trust you.

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American Gangster

The Insatiable Demands of Corruption

Frank Lucas I do pay them, I pay them all. Cops, accountants, lawyers, who don’t I pay? Everybody. I pay them a fortune, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t satisfy them. The more you pay, the more they expect. You can’t start with them because they can’t stop. It’s like dope. They always want more.

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Ricochet

Miscommunication and Consequences in Relationships

Nick Styles That is not the girl who gave me the clap. Ah, no, alright, alright, I retract that statement. That is the girl who gave me the clap, but...that's not her voice. That's not her voice. That is not what she said to me. That is not what I...no, no, that's what I said.. No, I did say that to her, but she did not say that.

D.A. Priscilla Brimleigh Nick, I want you examined by a psychiatrist.

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Déjà Vu

Energy Consumption for Image Creation Discussed

Shanti We used huge amounts of energy to create this image!

Doug Carlin Alright, how huge?

Alexander Denny Well you remember that little ], we blamed Canada, Canada blamed Michigan...

[[w:Northeast blackout of 2003|blackout we had a few years back]

Doug Carlin Half the northeast. You're saying you guys...

Alexander Denny 50 million homes?

Gunnars My bad!

[raises hand]

Alexander Denny Well, I still say we blame Canada, but...

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The Book of Eli

Changing One's Situation Through Action

Solara I want to come with you.

Eli No, you don't.

Solara ... I hate it here.

Eli Then change it.

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The Equalizer

A Choice Between Action and Inaction

Robert McCall ] — not ].

[[Progress; [Perfection]

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The Equalizer

Stand for Something and Serve

Robert McCall You're supposed to stand for something, punk. ] and serve. Uphold the ]. ]. Remember?

[[Protect; [law; [Justice]

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Philadelphia

The Search for Truth in Court

Joe Miller Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. Forget everything you've seen on television and in the movies. There's not gonna be any last minute surprise witnesses. Nobody's gonna break down on the stand with a tearful confession. You're gonna be presented with a simple fact: Andrew Beckett was fired. You'll hear two explanations for why he was fired: ours and theirs. It is up to you to sift through layer upon layer of truth until you determine for yourselves which version sounds the most true. There are certain points that I must prove to you.

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The Equalizer

A Chance to Choose the Right Path

Robert McCall I am offering you a chance to do the right thing. Take it.

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Déjà Vu

Agent Carlin Receives a Mysterious Package

Mr. Kuchever Agent Carlin?

Doug Carlin Doug.

Mr. Kuchever I want you to take these.

[hands over pictures of Claire Kuchever]

Doug Carlin Well, that's...

Mr. Kuchever Just go through them when you get a chance.

Doug Carlin It's really not necessary.

Mr. Kuchever Yes, it is. See, I know how these things go, Agent Carlin. And I need her to matter to you.

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Ricochet

Authority and Compliance in Conversation

Wanda So you're up for the house special?

[in an unrelated audio recording]

Nick Styles Listen, I'm the assistant district attorney, so you're gonna have to follow my orders.

[in an unrelated audio recording]

Wanda You got it, Mr. D.A.

[in an unrelated audio recording]

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Mo' Better Blues

The Connection Between Happiness and Success

Bleek Gilliam I want more money. Okay? I'm not happy. When I'm not happy, I don't play good. When I don't play good, the music doesn't sound good. If the music doesn't sound good, nobody comes. We all lose our money.

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The Pelican Brief

Finding Someone Through Deceptive Means

Gray Grantham How'd you find me?

Darby Shaw I called the paper and asked for your address.

Gray Grantham And?

Darby Shaw I told them I was your sister Mary in from out of town and couldn't find you.

Gray Grantham How'd you know I had a sister Mary?

[looks surprised]

Darby Shaw You're not the only one who does research.

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Devil in a Blue Dress

Struggles of Post-War Life and Identity

Easy Rawlins I had moved to Los Angeles right after the war with three hundred dollars and the G.I. Bill... And I liked coming home to a place that was mine. According to President Truman I had that comin to me cause I had fought in the good war against Hitler in Europe. But that didn't mean a damn thing to a lotta white folks, including the foreman on my job. So, here I was out of work needin thirty-two dollars to pay the mortgage. That was three days pay on my old job—and I had about three days to get it.

[voiceover]

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The Book of Eli

Reflections on a Lost World

Solara Do you remember what it was like? I mean, in the world before?

Eli People had more than they needed. We had no idea what was precious, what wasn't. We threw away things people kill each other for now.

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The Equalizer

Confrontation Between McCall and Pushkin

Vladimir Pushkin Who are you?

Robert McCall Everybody wants to know. …

Vladimir Pushkin What do you want?

Robert McCall I want the head of the snake.

Vladimir Pushkin So it's you. And now you've come to kill me.

Robert McCall Yes.

Vladimir Pushkin And tell me, what do you gain from my death?

Robert McCall ].

[[Peace]

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The Magnificent Seven

Humor in Dark Situations

Josh Faraday I ever tell you about a man I knew, fell off the roof of a five story building? Every floor he passed on the way down, they heard him yell, So far, so good! He's dead now. Hey, Sam, have I made good on my horse yet?

[pause]

Sam Chisolm So far, so good.

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Déjà Vu

Life, Death, and Perception of Reality

Doug Carlin Is she alive or is she dead?

Alexander Denny Alright: Life, like time and space, is not merely a local phenomenon.

Doug Carlin Oh alright! Am I asking a hard question?

[Screaming]

Alexander Denny Looks like I picked a bad week to stop snorting hash.

[Muttering]

Doug Carlin I'll tell you what: I will speak slow so that those of you with Ph.D's in the room can understand. Here, look. Here's a monitor, right?

Doug Carlin Now the monitor is broken. It's dead. It's not temporarily transitioned to another state of entropy, it's dead. Right. Now is she alive or is she dead?

Alexander Denny She's alive.

Doug Carlin Alright. Now we're getting somewhere.

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The Pelican Brief

Questioning Official Statements on Assassination

Smith Keen Didn't they also say they knew of no connection with the assassination?

Gray Grantham Yes. But what else are they gonna say?

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Philadelphia

Equality and Freedom in Philadelphia's History

Joe Miller We're standing here in Philadelphia, the, uh, city of brotherly love, the birthplace of freedom, where the, uh, founding fathers authored the Declaration of Independence, and I don't recall that glorious document saying anything about all straight men are created equal. I believe it says all men are created equal.

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Cry Freedom

Empowering Change for an Equal South Africa

Steve Biko We are going to change South Africa. What we've got to decide is the best way to do that. And as angry as we have the right to be, let us remember that we are in the struggle to kill the idea that one kind of man is superior to another kind of man. And killing that idea is not dependent on the white man. We must stop looking to him to give us something. We have to fill the black community with our own pride. We have to teach our black children black history, tell them about our black heroes, our black culture, so that they don't face the white man believing they are inferior. Then we'll stand up to him in anyway he chooses. Conflict, if he likes. But with an open hand, too, to say we can all build a South Africa worth living in - a South Africa for equals, black or white, a South Africa as beautiful as this land is, as beautiful as we are.

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The Equalizer

Facing Consequences of Choices Made

Robert McCall When you ] for ], you gotta deal with the mud too.

[[pray; [rain]

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Gladiator II

Revenge Through Transformation in Rome

Macrinus The best revenge is to become unlike the one who did the injury. I have made myself unlike... your father; he spoke of dreams, I speak of truth. And the only truth in my Rome is the law of the strongest. I was owned by an emperor. Now I control an Empire. Where else but in Rome can a man do that?

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American Gangster

Defiance and Belonging in America

Frank Lucas This is my home. My country. Frank Lucas don't run from nobody. This is America.

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Gladiator II

The Politics of Power and Acclaim

Macrinus I shall deliver them Caracalla's head and the people shall acclaim me. That, my friend, is politics.

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The Equalizer

The Weight of Unexplained Empathy

Robert McCall I couldn't tell you why — it mattered. Why what they did to her, that mattered to me so much. One day somebody does something unspeakable to someone else to... someone you hardly knew, and you... do something about it because you can.

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Out of Time

Questioning Intentions in High-Stakes Situations

Matt Lee Whitlock Sometimes I think you want me to shoot you, Chae.

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The Equalizer

An Unexpected Mishap Explained

Ralphie What happened?

[asking about Robert's injured hand]

Robert McCall I hit it on something stupid.

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The Equalizer

Consequences of Choices and Violence

Robert McCall Your heart is beating at three times the normal rate. It’s because you’re losing so muct blood. In about 30 seconds, your body’s gonna shut down, and you’ll suffocate. Alina, the girl you beat half to death, her life’s gonna go on. Yours is gonna end right here, on this funky floor… over ninety-eight hundred dollars. You should have taken the money.

[sitting beside a dying Slavi]

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Malcolm X

Discussion on Identity and Heritage

Malcolm X What color were they?

[about the disciples of Christ]

Chaplain Gill Well, I don't think we know that for certain.

Malcolm X But they were Hebrews, were they not?

Chaplain Gill That's right.

Malcolm X As was Jesus. Jesus was also a Hebrew.

Chaplain Gill Why don't you just ask your question.

Malcolm X What color were the original Hebrews?

Chaplain Gill I have told you that we don't know that for certain.

Malcolm X Then you can't believe for certain that Jesus was white.

Chaplain Gill Just... Just a moment. Just a moment. God is white. Isn't it obvious?

[pointing to a painting of a white Jesus hanging on the wall]

Malcolm X Well, that is obvious, but we don't know if it's obvious that God is white. The honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that Jesus did not have blond hair and blue eyes. The honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that the images of Jesus that are on prison walls and churches throughout the world are not historically correct because history teaches us that Jesus was born in a region where the people had color. There's proof in the very Bible you ask us to read, in Revelations, first chapter, verse fourteen and fifteen, that Jesus had hair like wool and feet the color of brass.

[nodding to the painting]

Chaplain Gill Now just... just what are you saying?

Malcolm X I'm not saying anything; I'm proving to you that Jesus was not, and I might quote one of my Indian brothers, he was not a pale-face.

Chaplain Gill Uh-huh.

[pensively]

Malcolm X Amen.

Chaplain Gill Isn't that interesting.

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Ricochet

A Former D.A.'s Assertion of Independence

Bookstore owner You're the D.A.!

Nick Styles Wrong! They fired me. As a private citizen I can kick anybody's ass I want to.

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Philadelphia

Lawyers and Dark Humor

Andrew Beckett What do you call a thousand lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean?

Joe Miller I don't know.

Andrew Beckett A good start.

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The Equalizer

Confronting the Past and Personal Promises

Robert McCall I've done some bad things in my life, Nicolai... Things I'm not ] of. I promised someone I love very much that I would never go back to being that person. But for you, I'm going to make an exception. You asked me what I saw when I looked at you. What do you see when you look at me?

[[proud]

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American Gangster

Ownership and Independence in Business

Frank Lucas The man I worked for, he had one of the biggest companies in New York City- he ran it for more than fifty years. Fifteen years, eight months, nine days- I was with him every day. I looked after him, took care of him, protected him... I learned from him. Bumpy was rich, but he wasn't white man rich, you see he wasn't wealthy. He didn’t own his own company. He thought he did, but he didn’t. He just managed it. White man owned it so they owned him. Nobody owns me, though. Because I own my company. And my company sells a product that’s better than the competition at a price that’s lower than the competition.

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Malcolm X

Understanding House and Field Negroes

Malcolm X To understand this man -- you must know that historically there are two kinds of slaves. House Negroes and Field Negroes. The house Negro lived in the big house; he dressed pretty good; he ate pretty good and he loved the master. Yeah, he loved him more than the master loved himself. If the master's house caught fire, he'd be the first to put the blaze out. If the master got sick, he'd say: "What's a matter, boss; we sick?" We sick! If someone said to him, "Let's run away and escape. Let's separate." He'd say, "Man, are you crazy? What's better than what I got here?" That was the House Negro. In those days he was called the House Nigger. Well, that's what we call them today because we still got a lot of House Niggers running around.

[points at a Negro Panelist]

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The Magnificent Seven

A Job Offer in Uncertain Times

Josh Faraday Our paths cross again. To what do I owe the pleasure?

Sam Chisolm Took a job. Looking for some men to join me.

Josh Faraday Is there money in it?

Josh Faraday And who's she?

Sam Chisolm Joan of Arc.

Emma Cullen My name's Emma Cullen. And this is my associate, Teddy Q.

Josh Faraday Well, I do have an affinity for shiny things. Is it difficult?

[tosses the bag back to her]

Sam Chisolm Impossible.

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Malcolm X

Malcolm X Advocates for Global Brotherhood and Justice

Report #1 Malcolm, you said on your trip abroad you sensed a feeling of great brotherhood.

Malcolm X As I recall, I pointed out that while I was in Mecca making the pilgrimage, I spoke about the brotherhood that existed at all levels among all people, all colors who had accepted the religion of Islam. I pointed out that what it had done, Islam, for those people despite their complexion differences, that it would probably do America well to study the religion of Islam and perhaps it could drive some of the racism from this society. Muslims look upon themselves as human beings, as part of the human family and therefore look upon all other segments of the human family as part of that same family. Today my friends are black, brown, red, yellow and white.

Reporter #8 Malcolm, are you prepared to go to the United Nations at this point and ask that charges be brought against the United States for its treatment of the American Negroes?

Malcolm X Oh yes. The audience will have to be quiet. Yes, as I pointed out that during my trip that nations, African nations, Asian, Latin nations look very hypocritical when they stand up in the UN condemning South Africa and saying nothing about the racist practices that are manifested everyday against Negroes in this society. I would be not a man if I didn't do so. I wouldn't be a man.

[the audience applauds]

Reporter #2 One of your more controversial remarks was a call for black people to get rifles and form rifle clubs sometime back. Do you still favor that for self-defense?

Malcolm X I don't see why that should be controversial. I think that if white people found themselves victim of the same kind of brutality that black people in this country face, and they saw that the government was either unwilling or unable to protect them, that the intelligence on the part of the whites would make them get some rifles and protect themselves.

Reporter #2 What about the guns, Malcolm?

Malcolm X Has the white man changed since I went away? Have you put up your guns? The day you stop being violent against my people will be the day I tell folks to put away their guns.

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Malcolm X

The Limits of Allyship in Activism

Coed Mr. X, I've read some of your speeches and I honestly believe a lot of what you say has truth to it. I have a good heart. I'm a good person despite my whiteness. What can the good white people like myself, who are not prejudiced, or racist, what can we do to help the cause?

Malcolm X Nothing.

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Devil in a Blue Dress

Secrets and Costs of Information

Easy Rawlins It occurred to me that Coretta had found out a lot more about what I was up to than I had wanted her to. But I had found out that the rich man's woman had a colored boyfriend. It had cost me a sawbuck to get Coretta to give me that information. Well, let's just say somethin had cost me ten dollars.

[voiceover]

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Cry Freedom

Demand for Confrontation and Its Implications

State Prosecutor But your own words demand for direct confrontation!

Steve Biko That's right, we demand confrontation.

State Prosecutor Isn't that a demand for violence?

Steve Biko Well, you and I are now in confrontation, but I see no violence.

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The Magnificent Seven

Finding Hope in Despair

Goodnight Robicheaux Why do you waste your time on a piece of rebel trash like me?

Sam Chisolm What we lost in the fire, we will find in the ashes.

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Ricochet

Questioning the Consequences of Drug Culture

Nick Styles What the fuck is wrong with all y'all? Selling drugs to each other, cause ya damn sure ain't selling them in Beverly Hills. Killing yourselves, and for what? Make ya feel like a man? Or does it make ya dick hard? Punk motherfuckers.

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Déjà Vu

Cost of Freedom and Human Collateral

Doug Carlin You killed 543 people. How do you feel about that? I think that you were a murderer right from the beginning.

[pause]

Carroll Oerstadt Sometimes a little human collateral is the cost of freedom. To me, those people were war casualties, but to you, they're just evidence.

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Philadelphia

Justice and Reality in the Courtroom

Judge Garrett In this courtroom, Mr.Miller, justice is blind to matters of race, creed, color, religion, and sexual orientation.

Joe Miller With all due respect, your honor, we don't live in this courtroom though, do we?

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Philadelphia

Justice and Morality in Philadelphia

Joe Miller Some of these people make me sick, Philco. But a law's been broken. You remember the law, don't you?

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Training Day

Consequences of Choices in a Dangerous Game

Alonzo What's that?

[''After catching Blue in the back of a Korean store after a chase, forcefully pressing a pen down Blue's throat causing him to vomit the crack rocks he was hiding in his stomach'']

Blue Motherfucking crack, man.

Alonzo That's right, Jimmy Crack Corn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Oh, you're federally fucked now. You got crack... and a gun. You know with your record you can get 10 years per bullet? Now you gon gimme a name. That's 10 right there.

['''Pops out a bullet'']

Blue Come on, man. You know I ain't no snitch, man.

Alonzo I know you ain't no snitch. Gimme a name. That's 20.

[''Removes bullet'']

Blue Fuck!

Alonzo Gimme a name. That's 30 years. You wanna go to jail or you wanna go home?

[''Pops out a bullet''; ''Pops out a bullet'']

Blue He in the county!

Alonzo Who?

Blue Nigga named Sandman. That's all the fuck I know, man! Shit!

Alonzo See how easy that was?

[''Pops out a bullet'']

Blue I'm sick of this shit, man.

Alonzo You wanna collect the evidence?

Jake Fuck that.

Alonzo My nigga.

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Cry Freedom

Identity and Perception of Race

Judge Why do you people call yourselves black? You look more brown than black.

Steve Biko Why do you call yourselves white? You look more pink than white.

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Philadelphia

Simplifying Complex Ideas for Understanding

Joe Miller Now, explain it to me like I'm a two-year-old.

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Philadelphia

The Thrill of Justice in Law

Joe Miller What do you love about the law, Andrew?

Andrew Beckett I... many things... uh... uh... What I love the most about the law?

Joe Miller Yeah.

Andrew Beckett It's that every now and again - not often, but occasionally - you get to be a part of justice being done. That really is quite a thrill when that happens.

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Malcolm X

Identity Beyond Politics and Race

Malcolm X I must emphasize at the outstart that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is not a politician. So I'm not here this afternoon as a Republican, nor as a Democrat; not as a Mason, nor as an Elk; not as a Protestant, nor a Catholic; not as a Christian, nor a Jew; not as a Baptist, nor a Methodist. In fact, not even as an American, because if I was an American, the problem that confronts our people today wouldn't even exist. So I have to stand here today as what I was when I was born: a black man. Before there was any such thing as a Republican or a Democrat, we were black. Before there was any such thing as a Mason or an Elk, we were black. Before there was any such thing as a Jew or a Christian, we were black people! In fact, before there was any such place as America, we were black! And after America has long passed from the scene, there will still be black people.I'm gonna tell you like it really is. Every election year these politicians are sent up here to pacify us! They're sent here and setup here by the White Man! This is what they do! They send drugs in Harlem down here to pacify us! They send alcohol down here to pacify us! They send prostitution down here to pacify us! Why you can't even get drugs in Harlem without the White Man's permission! You can't get prostitution in Harlem without the White Man's permission! You can't get gambling in Harlem without the White Man's permission! Every time you break the seal on that liquor bottle, that's a Government seal that you're breaking! Oh, I say and I say it again, ya been had! Ya been took! Ya been hoodwinked! Bamboozled! Led astray! Run amok! This is what He does.

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Ricochet

Conflict and Denial in Relationships

Nick Styles This woman...they brought her in. Alice, please believe me. I didn't enjoy it. I...I...I...I didn't want her. I fought her with every inch of my body.

Alice Styles Well, if you manage to get ] out, you'll think of several inches that didn't put up a fight.

[looks at his crotch; [w:the clap|the clap]

Devil in a Blue Dress

Job Offer with Unclear Intentions

DeWitt Albright These big companies, don't give a damn, do they? If you need a job, drop by this address at seven tonight.

[writes on a business card]

Easy Rawlins What kind of work you do?

DeWitt Albright I do favors... I do favors for friends. Drop by.

[leaves]

Easy Rawlins Who the hell is that, Joppy?

Joppy Just somebody I know... A bidnessman.

Easy Rawlins What kinda business?

Joppy Oh, I don't ask him all that. He comes in here every so often looking for somebody to do a little job for him... He pays good.

Easy Rawlins In other words, he's a gangster.

Joppy I didn't say that... But if there's a dollar laying in the street I don't think he'll let a little dirt stop him from picking it up. If you worried about making that house note this month, maybe you wanna pay him a call. All them pretty girls you be with ain't gonna buy you a house. Sound like he just wants you to keep your eyes open for somebody...He'll pay you whether you see anything or not. If it was me I'd take that man's money and go on about my bidness... Ain't nothin to worry about.

Easy Rawlins When somebody tells me "Don't worry," I usually look down to see if my fly is open... I noticed Albright didn't bother to pay for his drink. DeWitt Albright reminded me of somebody I knew back in Houston. His name was Raymond Alexander but we called him Mouse... Mouse called hisself a businessman too. And I found out that I shouldn't be nowhere around when Mouse got down to his business... I learned that the hard way.

[voiceover]

The Book of Eli

Reflections on Humanity and Mortality

Eli Cursed be the ground, for our sake. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth, for us, for out of the ground we were taken for the dust that we are... and to the dust we shall return.

Ricochet

The Liberation of Insanity

Nick Styles Blake, I should thank you for this, you know. Going insane, it's strangely liberating, isn't it?

[During the final showdown]

The Magnificent Seven

The Dilemma of Violence and Choice

Preacher The spirit is willing, but we are not killers.

Sam Chisolm No one is, until they're looking down the barrel of a gun.

Gladiator II

Instrument of My Will

Macrinus You will be my instrument!

Gladiator II

Embracing Rage as a Strength

Macrinus That rage is your gift.

American Gangster

The Importance of Honesty and Identity in Business

Frank Lucas The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work, family, never forgetting where we came from. See, you are what you are in this world, that’s either one of two things: Either you're somebody ... or you’re nobody. I'll be right back

The Magnificent Seven

A Call for Justice and Remembrance

Sam Chisolm Pray with me, then. Let's pray. Pray for my mother, who your men raped. Pray for my sisters, who your men murdered. Did you pray when they strung me up?

[undoes his collar to reveal a scar on his throat]

The Book of Eli

Gratitude and Reflection in a Journey

Eli Dear Lord, thank you for giving me the strength and the conviction to complete the task you entrusted to me. Thank you for guiding me straight and true through the many obstacles in my path, and keeping me resolute when all around seemed lost. Thank you for your protection and your many signs along the way. Thank you for any good I may have done, and I'm so sorry about the bad. Thank you for the friend I made. Please watch over her as you have watched over me. Thank you for finally allowing me to rest. I am so very tired. But I go now to my rest, at peace, knowing that I have done right in my time on this Earth, I fought the good fight. I finished the race. I kept the faith.

The Book of Eli

Survival Amidst Horror and Desperation

Eli We gotta go now.

[seeing the grave yard in the backyard of the homestead]

Solara They killed all these people.

Eli Not just killed them. They ate them.

Solara Her hands... her hands were shaking.

Eli Too much human meat. Let's go!

The Book of Eli

Dispute Over a Cat Incident

Martz That was my cat.

Eli Fine specimen.

Martz I saw you knock him off the bar.

Eli No, I kind of shooed him. I didn't really knock him.

Martz You raised your hand at him.

Eli Won't happen again, I promise you.

Bartender Hey Martz, how bout another drink, huh?

Martz That cat has been coming in here for two years. It's got more rights to be in here than you.

Eli I don't want any trouble.

Martz Well, that's too bad. Cuz you're about to-

[Raising his fist at Eli]

Eli I know who you are. A murderer of innocent travelers around the world. You are going to be held accountable for the things you've done. Do you know that? Do you?

Ricochet

Confrontation Over Grief and Loss

Nick Styles Do it for your mother.

[trying to persuade Odessa to stop dealing at the Towers]

Odessa What about my mother, motherfucker?

Nick Styles Your mother, nigga! The one that died of a broken heart, praying with my father every night over your sorry ass. The one that buried your kid brother without his head because they couldn't find it. Don't play me, Odessa.

Malcolm X

Reflection on Organizational Challenges in the Movement

Malcolm X We had the best organization a black man's ever had. Niggers ruined it.

Cry Freedom

Equality and Fearlessness in Humanity

Steve Biko I just expect to be treated like you expect to be treated. Come on, what are you so afraid of? Once you try you see there's nothing to fear. We're just as weak and human as you are.

The Equalizer

Understanding the Term "Pip

Robert McCall I was a Pip.

Jay You were a pimp?

Robert McCall No, not a pimp, a Pip. "P - I - P", Pip.

Jay What the fuck is a Pip?

Robert McCall Why you got to curse so much? You know, like ]? Like this.

[[w:Gladys Knight & the Pips|Gladys Knight & the Pips; starts dancing]

The Book of Eli

Balancing Faith and Life's Lessons

Eli In all these years I've been carrying it and reading it every day... I got so caught up in keeping it safe that I forgot to live by what I learned from it.

[about his Bible]

The Magnificent Seven

Justice and Revenge in The Magnificent Seven

Emma Cullen He made them murder my husband, he will take everything we have.

Sam Chisolm So you seek revenge?

Emma Cullen I seek righteousness, as should we all. But I'll take revenge.

American Gangster

Respecting Boundaries on Special Occasions

Frank Lucas Detective. There are some things you don’t do. This is one of them. Not on a man’s wedding day.

[To Trupo]

The Equalizer

A Chance for Redemption and Choice

Robert McCall The men I killed, your men, I gave them a chance, they made their ]. I'm giving you the ] to make yours.

[[decision; [opportunity]

The Book of Eli

Understanding Faith Beyond Sight

Eli I walk by faith, not by sight.

Solara What does that mean?

Eli It means that you know something even if you don't know something.

Solara That doesn't make any sense.

Eli It doesn't have to make sense. It's faith. It's faith. It's the flower of light in the field of darkness that's giving me the strength to carry on, you understand?

Solara Is that from your book?

Eli No, its uh...] Live "].

[[Johnny Cash; [w:At Folsom Prison|At Folsom Prison]

Solara What?

Gladiator II

A Discussion on Sacrifice and Fury

Macrinus Whose head could I give you to satisfy this fury?

Lucius "Hanno" Verus The entire ].

[[w:Roman army|Roman army]

Macrinus Too much.

Lucius "Hanno" Verus The general will do.

Cry Freedom

Defiance Against Oppression and Control

Steve Biko You can beat or jail me or even kill me, but I am not going to be what you want me to be!

The Book of Eli

Focus on Your Own Journey

Eli Stay on the path. It's not your concern. Stay on the path. It's not your concern.

Gladiator II

The Crowd's Faith in Power and Glory

Macrinus Do you hear that crowd? The greatest temple ever built. ]. Because this is what they believe in. Power.

[[w:Colosseum|The Colosseum]

The Pelican Brief

Risking Truth in Dangerous Conversations

Gray Grantham Do you want to talk about the brief?

Darby Shaw Everyone I have told about the brief is dead.

Gray Grantham I'll take my chances.

The Magnificent Seven

Uneven Exchanges Among Companions

Sam Chisolm How are you doing?

Josh Faraday So far, so good. I might need a new vest.

Sam Chisolm Hey. Know what? We're even. For the horse, you don't owe me anything.

Josh Faraday Well, you owe me.

Sam Chisolm What's that?

Josh Faraday Cover.

Devil in a Blue Dress

Fear of a Dangerous World

Easy Rawlins It scared me to think about a world that could kill a man like DeWitt Albright. What could a world like that do to me?

[voiceover]

Malcolm X

Preference for Coffee Over Integration

Malcolm X The only thing I like integrated is my coffee.

American Gangster

Summary of the Situation

Frank Lucas That basically the whole picture right there.

Devil in a Blue Dress

Plans for Self-Employment and Side Deals

Degan Odell Ain't thinkin bout no job? How you gonna live?

Easy Rawlins I'm gonna go to work for myself. Take a little money I got saved up and go into real estate. Start fixin up folks gardens again...and do a few favors on the side. Favors for friends.

Degan Odell What you talkin bout, favors'?

Easy Rawlins Well, like a woman offered me thirty dollars to go track down her husband for her.

Degan Odell You talkin about private investigatin or somethin'. You could get in trouble doin that.

Easy Rawlins Like a man once said to me, Odell: Walk out your door in the morning and you're already in trouble'. It's just how you're mixed up in that trouble that counts. Odell?

Degan Odell Yeah, Easy?

Easy Rawlins If you got a friend that does bad and you still keep him as your friend, even though you know what he's like... Do you think that's right?

Degan Odell All you got is your friends, Easy.

The Book of Eli

Search for the Book's True Purpose

Eli I always believed there was a place where this book belonged, where it was needed. But I haven't found it yet.

[When Carnegie confronts him and demands he hand the Bible over to him]

Memorable Quotes from Denzel Washington

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