'Sheba, Baby' (1975)

Pam Grier: Sheba Shayne

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Quotes 

• Sheba Shayne : You better talk, big man, before I put my number one foot down your number one mouth.

  Walker : Shit, you can't kick no shadow, bitch! Catch me!

  [runs away] 

• Sheba Shayne : Dad, I know you think I'm doing a man's job. But, I'm not going to sit on the sidelines just because I'm a woman!

• Racker : How in the hell do I know where you hang out at?

  Sheba Shayne : Why don't you try looking once in awhile, getting up off of that fat fanny of yours and going out into the world?

• Brick Williams : Hi, Suga. How you doin'?

  Sheba Shayne : Fine.

  Brick Williams : I'm so glad you came.

  Sheba Shayne : I'm glad I came, too.

• Sheba Shayne : How much do I owe you for this?

  Brick Williams : I'll collect on it later.

  Sheba Shayne : Huh! Promises, promises.

• Sheba Shayne : Don't give me that 'what chu doin' back in town' shit!

• Walker : You know, you shore know how to make a man's day.

  Sheba Shayne : I can make quite a few more for ya, too.

  Walker : Oh! Go on, Mama.

• Brick Williams : I got somethin' planned for later.

  Sheba Shayne : What do you have planned for later?

  Brick Williams : I'm not gonna tell you now.

  Sheba Shayne : Stop pinching me!

  [laughs] 

  Brick Williams : Come here.

  [laughs] 

  Sheba Shayne : That hurt.

  [laughs] 

• Sheba Shayne : What am I going to do with you?

  Brick Williams : Whatever you want.

• Sheba Shayne : You know you still think everything can be solved by logic. Well, these people don't even - they don't even know what logic means. They can't even spell it! They'll shoot first and talk later.

  Brick Williams : That's exactly what I'm tryin' to tell you! Don't you understand? I don't want you to go out there and get your god damn brains blown out!

• Walker : What the hell you want, bitch?

  Sheba Shayne : I want some information.

  Walker : Do I look like the Colored Bureau of Information?

• Sheba Shayne : Mr. Wonderful, himself. I bet you're Walker.

  Walker : Number One in the flesh, Mama. Or, eh, or, eh, who are you?

  Sheba Shayne : The name's Sheba. Sheba Shayne.

  Walker : Sheba Shayne? Well, Miss fine Sheba Shayne, you tell Number One what he can do fer ya?

  Sheba Shayne : Number One, what you can do is, I want to buy something.

  Walker : Yeah! What chu need, I got. And anything you want, I can get. And if you ready for that tough shit, let's just step around to my private warehouse. Ooo-Ooo!

• Brick Williams : You like living in Chicago?

  Sheba Shayne : It's a good a place as any to get hassled. It's not a big thing.

  Brick Williams : Eh, do you have someone there?

  Sheba Shayne : Well, if you're asking if do I sleep alone every night of the week? I'd have to say no. And then again if you're asking if I'm going with someone steady? I'd have to say no. So, what are you asking?

• Shark : I like it out here. It's quiet. It gets me away from all the shit in the city.

  Sheba Shayne : I don't see how. You seem to bring it all along with you.

• Sheba Shayne : Do you have trouble sleeping at night?

  Shark : From taking money from stupid, ignorant people? No. You have to admire a man for the goals that he sets.

• Sheba Shayne : I knew no one legitimate could own a boat like this.

  Shark : A yacht, my dear.

• Sheba Shayne : Do I have to remind you that you ordered hot wax?

  Walker : Oh, shit!

• Sheba Shayne : Now, you tell your boss, if you see him before I do, that the lady is after his *ass* and you are proof I always get my man! You got that?

• Sheba Shayne : Have I bruised your masculinity?

  Shark : Not really. It will take more than one chick to do that.

  Sheba Shayne : Would it?

• Sheba Shayne : What was that all about?

  Pilot : It's nothin' baby. Forget about it.

  Sheba Shayne : Forget about it? I come home and find my father beaten half to death and hear some sweet talkin' nigga threaten his life and you say forget about it?