Moonlight - Establishing Rules of Love and Pride
Teresa: [chuckles; pause; pause]
Aright. Water for me, and a little gin for you. Boy please. I know Juan used to give you that gin, but we ain't doing that up in here Chiron. You don't think my joke was funny? What's wrong?
Chiron:
Nothing. I'm good.
Teresa:
No. I done seen good, and you ain't it. Stop putting yo head down in my house! You know my rule. It's all love and all pride in this house! Do you feel me?
Teresa: [scoffs]
I can't hear you. Do you feel me?
Chiron: [quietly]
Yeah.
Teresa:
Okay.
Chiron: [firmly]
I feel you.
Teresa:
Aright.
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Hidden Figures - Advocating for Equality and Appreciation
Katherine Johnson:
How can you be possibly ogling these white men?
Mary Jackson:
It's equal rights. I have the right to see fine in every color.
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Hidden Figures - Challenging Barriers to Achieve Dreams
Karl Zielinski:
Mary, a person with an engineer's mind should be an engineer. You can't be a computer the rest of your life.
Mary Jackson:
Mr. Zielinski, I'm a negro woman. I'm not gonna entertain the impossible.
Karl Zielinski:
And I'm a Polish Jew whose parents died in a Nazi prison camp. Now I'm standing beneath a spaceship that's going to carry an astronaut to the stars. I think we can say we are living the impossible. Let me ask you, if you were a white male, would you wish to be an engineer?
Mary Jackson:
I wouldn't have to. I'd already be one.
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Hidden Figures - Unexpected Car Trouble in a Difficult Situation
State Trooper:
Not a great place for the three of y'all to be havin car trouble.
Mary Jackson:
We didn't pick the place, Officer, it picked us.
State Trooper: [glaring at Mary]
You bein disrespectful?
Mary Jackson:
No, sir.
State Trooper:
You have identification on ya?
Katherine:
We sure do. We're just on our way to work. At Langley. NASA, sir.
Dorothy Vaughan:
We do a great deal of the calculating getting our rockets into space.
State Trooper:
All three of ya?
Mary Jackson:
Yes, Officer.
State Trooper:
NASA. That's somethin'. Had no idea they hired...
Dorothy Vaughan: [politely; the Trooper meant something else]
There are quite a few women working in the Space Program.
State Trooper: [turning his attention back]
Damn Russians are watching us right now. Sputniks. You girls ever meet those astronauts? The Mercury Seven?
Mary Jackson:
Absolutely.
State Trooper:
Alan Shepard? John Glenn?
Katherine Johnson:
We work with those gentlemen all the time.
State Trooper:
Those boys are the best we got. That's for sure. We have'ta get up there before the Commies do. Whole damn country's countin on em.
Dorothy Vaughan:
That's for certain.
Mary Jackson:
Hard to be of service broken down on the side of the road, though.
State Trooper:
That's right. That's right. You need a tow or somethin'?
Dorothy Vaughan: [Dorothy touches the screwdriver to between the battery poles; the car starts.]
No, thank you, Officer. I think I got it, right here. Just have to bypass the starter. That's a girl. We're all set.
State Trooper:
Hell, least I can do is give you an escort. Imagine y'all are runnin late to work.
Katherine Johnson:
Oh, we wouldn't want to trouble you-
Mary Jackson:
That would be wonderful, Officer.
State Trooper:
Follow me.
Mary Jackson:
I'm drivin'. Hurry up, Dorothy, before he changes his mind.
Dorothy Vaughan:
Slow down, Mary! You're too close!
Mary Jackson:
He said to follow him.
Dorothy Vaughan:
Doesn't mean you hit him in the ass!
Katherine Johnson:
Dear Lord... please... I don't even know where to begin!
Mary Jackson:
I'll tell you where to begin: three "colored" women are chasing a white police officer down a highway in Hampton, Virginia, 1961. Ladies, that there is a God-ordained miracle!
Katherine Johnson:
Next time, I'm taking the bus!
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Hidden Figures - Obstacles to Progress and Equality
Mary Jackson:
Every time we get a chance to get ahead they move the finish line. Every time.
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Hidden Figures - Striving for Equality in Education and Opportunity
Mary Jackson:
I plan on being an engineer at NASA, but I can't do that without taking them classes at that all-white high school, and I can't change the color of my skin. So I have no choice, but to be the first, which I can't do without you, sir. Your Honor, out of all the cases you gon hear today, which one is gon matter hundred years from now? Which one is gon make you the first?
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