Memorable Quotes from Spike Lee
8 quotesSize and Responsibility in Artistic Relationships
Shadow
You're supposed to be taking care of me. I'm the artist, midget rat bastard.
Giant
What does size have to do with it?
Shadow
A lot. You keep coming up short.
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Favorite Icons in Conversation
Mookie
Pino, who's your favorite basketball player?
Pino
].
[[Magic Johnson]
Mookie
And who's your favorite movie star?
Pino
].
[[Eddie Murphy]
Mookie
And who's your favorite rock star?
Mookie
]. You're a Prince freak.
[[Prince (musician)|Prince]
Pino
Boss. ].
[[Bruce Springsteen|Bruce]
Mookie
Prince.
Pino
Bruce!
Mookie
Pino, all you ever talk about is nigger this and nigger that, and all your favorite people are so-called niggers.
Pino
It's different. Magic, Eddie, Prince... are not niggers. I mean, they're not black, I mean - Let me explain myself. They're - They're not really black. I mean, they're black, but they're not really black. They're more than black. It's different.
Mookie
It's different?
Pino
Yeah. To me, it's different.
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Escalating Tensions Between Mookie and Pino
Mookie
Pino, fuck you, fuck your fucking pizza, and fuck ].
[[Frank Sinatra]
Pino
Yeah? Well, fuck you, too, and fuck ].
[[Michael Jackson]
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Mutual Recognition of Worth
Buggin Out
You the man.
Mookie
No, you the man.
Buggin Out
You the man.
Mookie
No, you the man.
Buggin Out
No, I'm just a struggling black man trying to keep my dick hard in a cruel and harsh world.
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Racial Insults and Tensions Escalate in Dialogue
Mookie
You dago, wop, guinea, garlic breath, pizza slinging, spaghetti bending, Vic Damone, Perry Como, Luciano Pavarotti, Sole Mio, non-singing motherfucker.
Pino
You gold teeth, gold chain wearing, fried chicken and biscuit eating, monkey, ape, baboon, big thigh, fast running, high jumping, spear chucking, three-hundred-sixty-degree basketball dunking, titsun, spade, mulignan. Take your fucking pizza piece and go the fuck back to Africa.
Stevie
You little slanty eyed, me-no-speaky-American, own-every-fruit-and-vegetable-stand-in-New-York, bullshit, Reverend Sun Myung Moon, Summer Olympic 88, Korean kickboxing son-of-a-bitch.
Officer Long
You Goya bean eating, fifteen-in-a-car, thirty-in-an-apartment, pointed shoes, red wearing, Menudo, mira-mira Puerto Rican cocksucker. Yeah, you!
Sonny
It's cheap! I got a good price for you, Mayor Koch, "How-I'm-doing?", chocolate egg cream drinking, bagel and lox, B'nai B'rith, Jew asshole.
Mister Señor Love Daddy
Yo! Hold up! Time out! Time out! Y'all take a chill! Ya need to cool that shit out! And that's the double truth, Ruth!
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A Call for Identity and Solidarity
Buggin Out
Yo, Mookie.
Mookie
What?
Buggin Out
Stay black.
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The Importance of Making the Right Choice
Da Mayor
Doctor.
Mookie
C'mon, what? What?
Da Mayor
Always do the right thing.
Mookie
That's it?
Da Mayor
That's it.
Mookie
I got it. I'm gone.
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Demand for Representation in Public Spaces
Sal
What'd I tell you about that noise?
Buggin Out
What'd I tell you about them pictures?
Sal
What the fuck, are you deaf?
Buggin Out
No! Are you? FUCK YOU! We want some black people on that motherfucking Wall of Fame now!
Mookie
We're trying to go fucking home! We've been here all fucking day, Buggin Out!
Sal
Turn that jungle music off! We ain't in Africa!
Buggin Out
Why it got to be about jungle music? Why it got to be about Africa? It's about them fucking pictures!
Sal
It's about turning that shit off and getting the fuck out of my place!
Pino
RADIO RAHEEM!
Radio Raheem
Fuck you!
Sal
AND FUCK YOU TOO!
Ahmad
Get in there, Pino!
Radio Raheem
This is music. My music!
Sal
FUCK YOUR MUSIC!
Radio Raheem
Well, turn it off, then.
Vito
Hey, man, get the fuck out of here! We're fucking closed!
Buggin Out
Fuck you! We're closing you guinea bastards for good! For good, motherfucker! Until you get some black people on that motherfucking Wall of Fame!
Sal
You're gonna fucking close me?
Buggin Out
You're goddamn right!
Sal
YOU BLACK COCKSUCKER!! I'LL FUCKING TEAR YOUR FUCKING NIGGER ASS!
Punchy
Oh, we're niggers now?! We niggers now!
[Over all the shouting]
Buggin Out
YOU FUCKING WHITE TRASH! I'LL FUCK YOU UP!
Mookie
Sal, put the fucking bat down!
Buggin Out
COME ON, MAN, YOU FUCKING GUINEA TRASH!
Sal
YOU BLACK COCKSUCKER!! YOU NIGGER MOTHERFUCKER!
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