Mo' Better Blues - Size 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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Do the Right Thing - 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: [Over all the shouting]
Oh, we're niggers now?! We niggers now!
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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Do the Right Thing - 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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Do the Right Thing - 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: [[Prince (musician)|Prince]
]. You're a Prince freak.
Pino: [[Bruce Springsteen|Bruce]
Boss. ].
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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Do the Right Thing - 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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Do the Right Thing - Escalating Tensions Between Mookie and Pino
Mookie: [[Frank Sinatra]
Pino, fuck you, fuck your fucking pizza, and fuck ].
Pino: [[Michael Jackson]
Yeah? Well, fuck you, too, and fuck ].
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Do the Right Thing - 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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Do the Right Thing - A Call for Identity and Solidarity
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