Emma Mae (1976)

Malik Carter: Big Daddy Johnson

Quotes 

• Emma Mae : Big Daddy, I wish you would've changed your mind and gone back home. Well, I guess it's about that time.

  [loads shotgun] 

  'Big Daddy' Johnson : Girl, where did you learn to handle a shotgun like that?

  Emma Mae : My granddaddy.

• 'Big Daddy' Johnson : Now, y'all listen to this little lady - and get your hearts together. Talk about takin' chances? What do you think you're doin' every time you pick up a gun and get to so-called gang warring, with your own people, over turf? Somethin' don't none of you own! Cause the white man owns it. That's right. The white man owns every nook and every cranny. Every alley and every freeway. Every city and every Goddamn swamp. The white man owns it. Why? Cause he got off of his ass and took it. Now, y'all want a piece of it? Well, the only way you gonna get is to get up off your asses and take it back!

• 'Big Daddy' Johnson : Pigs! Swarms of 'em!

• 'Big Daddy' Johnson : Hey, what's the matter with you youngins nowadays? We got to be able to blow some heads off and we've got to be ready.

  Ezekiel 'Zeke' Johnson : We ready. We ready, Big Daddy.

  'Big Daddy' Johnson : Ready, my black ass! You sittin' there with a can of beer in one hand and the other partner upstairs with a piece of ass in the other and you got the nerve to tell me that your ready?

  Ezekiel 'Zeke' Johnson : Now look, Big Daddy, be cool. Now look, they don't even know we're in here.

  'Big Daddy' Johnson : Hey, we're in here. There out there. We don't know what they know and don't know!

• 'Big Daddy' Johnson : Y'all always jivin' me about my mumblin'. But, see, what you don't know is I mumble to forget. That's right. When I mumble, I forget that I'm *ashamed* to be as old as I am and still walkin' around. Why, if I was anybody at all, I'd be dead! I'm shit and I know it.

• 'Big Daddy' Johnson : Now, sit your *fucking* asses down and listen to a *real* woman for a change.

• 'Big Daddy' Johnson : Y'all got the nerve to talkin' about, worryin' about, facin' time. Facin' time? Nigger, you face time every day you live and breathe. Why, you're doin' time right now and don't even know it!