American Fiction - Confronting Homophobia in Personal Relationships
Thelonious Monk Ellison:
Who is that? What are you doing?
Clifford Ellison:
I've taken a lover.
Thelonious Monk Ellison:
You've taken a lover?
Clifford Ellison:
You got a problem with that, homophobe?
Thelonious Monk Ellison:
I'm not offended that you've taken a lover, Cliff. I'm offended, Cliff, that you call it taking a lover.
Clifford Ellison:
Hmm. You can eat shit, nigga. I'm gonna take my lover right now.
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Black Panther - Seeking the Truth About the Past
Zuri:
So, your mission did not go as planned.
T'Challa:
What happened to my uncle, N'Jobu? My father told me he disappeared. There was a man today wearing a ring identical to this one.
Zuri:
It is not possible.
T'Challa:
He helped Klaue escape from us and he was wearing this ring. My grandfather's ring! Do not tell me what is impossible, tell me the truth!
Zuri: [Exhales deeply]
Some truths... are too much to bear, T'Challa.
T'Challa::
That is not your choice to make. What happened to him?
Zuri:
I promised the king to say nothing.
T'Challa: [Irritated]
I AM YOUR KING NOW!
Zuri:
Your uncle took a War Dog assignment in America. Your father placed me there to observe unbeknownst to him. Your uncle fell in love with an American woman, they had a child. The hardship he saw there radicalized your uncle.
N'Jobu:
I observed for as long as I could. Their leaders have been assassinated. Communities flooded with drugs and weapons. They are overly policed and incarcerated. All over the planet, our people suffer because they don't have the tools to fight back. With vibranium weapons, they can overthrow all countries, and Wakanda can rule them all, the right way.
Zuri:
He knew your father would not support this, so your uncle betrayed us.
T'Challa: [Shocked]
No!
Zuri:
He helped Klaue steal the Vibranium.
T'Challa:
No.
T'Chaka:
You will return home at once where you will face the council and inform them of your crimes.
Zuri:
He drew his weapon on me.
Zuri:
Your father killed his own brother to save my life.
T'Chaka:
Speak nothing of this.
T'Challa:
And the child?
Zuri:
We left him. We had to maintain the lie.
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Black Panther - Wakanda's Role in Global Struggles Explored
N'Jobu:
I observed for as long as I could. Their leaders have been assassinated. Communities flooded with drugs and weapons. They are overly policed and incarcerated. All over the planet, our people suffer because they don't have the tools to fight back. With vibranium weapons they can overthrow all countries and Wakanda can rule them all, the right way.
T'Chaka: [to his brother; Zuri reveals himself]
Did you think you were the only spy we sent to the States?
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Black Panther - Planning a Quick Escape
N'Jobu:
Hey, look if we get in and out quick, it'll be no worries. You and the van come in from the west and laying right here. Me and the twins come in on the east, leaving this car behind. We'll come in .....
N'Jobu:
Hide the straps.
Zuri:
Yo, is it the Feds?
N'Jobu:
No.
Zuri: [[Grace Jones]
It's these two ] looking chicks. They hold spears.
N'Jobu: [Recognizing who the women are]
Open it.
Zuri:
Are you serious?
N'Jobu:
They won't knock again.
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Black Panther - A Father's Storytelling Moment
Young N'Jadaka:
Baba.
N'Jobu:
Yes, my son?
Young N'Jadaka:
Tell me a story.
N'Jobu:
Which one?
Young N'Jadaka:
The story of home.
N'Jobu: [[Africa; [w:Bast (Marvel Comics)|Bast]
Millions of years ago, a meteorite made of vibranium, the strongest substance in the universe, struck the continent of ], affecting the plant life around it. And when the time of men came, five tribes settled on it and called it Wakanda. The tribes lived in constant war with each other until a warrior shaman received a vision from the panther goddess ], who led him to the Heart-Shaped Herb, a plant that granted him superhuman strength, speed, and instincts. The warrior became king and the first Black Panther, the protector of Wakanda. Four tribes agreed to live under the king's rule, but the Jabari tribe isolated themselves in the mountains. The Wakandans used vibranium to develop technology more advanced than any other nation, but as Wakanda thrived, the world around it descended further into chaos. To keep vibranium safe, the Wakandans vowed to hide in plain sight, keeping the truth of their power from the outside world.
Young N'Jadaka:
And we still hide, Baba?
N'Jobu:
Yes.
Young N'Jadaka:
Why?
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