The Color Purple (1985)

Adolph Caesar: Old Mister Johnson

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• Old Mr. : Celie, you has my sympathy. Ain't many women allow they husband's ho to lay up in they house.

• Old Mr. : What is it with this Shug Avery? She black as tar, nappy-headed. She got Iegs like baseball bats.

• Old Mr. : Boy, you goin' let this ol' nappy-headed girl cuss you out like that? You sittin' at the head of your own dinner table and actin' like the waiter!

• Old Mr. : [Sofia begins to laugh after years of near silence] 

  Old Mr. : My God, the dead has arisen.

• Old Mr. : Shug Avery done set the population of Hartwell County a new high. You just one of the roosters, boy.

• Old Mr. : She's no more than a jook-joint Jezebel. Why, she ain't even clean. And I hear she's got that nasty women's disease.

• Old Mr. : You can't talk to my boy that way.

  Celie : Your boy. If he hadn't been your boy, he might have been a halfway decent man.

• Old Mr. : Get yourself a young girl. You heed your Daddy's advice. Get these chickens back in the coop, before they Iay eggs all over the place.