Do the Right Thing (1989)
Steve White: Ahmad
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Quotes
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Buggin' Out : You almost knocked me down, man. The word is "excuse me."
Clifton : Ah, excuse me, I'm sorry.
Buggin' Out : Not only did ya knock me down, you stepped on my brand-new white Air Jordans I just bought, and that's all you can say is "excuse me"?
Clifton : What, are you serious?
Buggin' Out : Yeah, I'm serious, I'll fuck you up quick two times.
Ahmad : Two times.
Buggin' Out : Who told you to step on my sneakers, who told you to walk on my side of the block, who told you to be in my neighborhood?
Clifton : I own this brownstone.
Buggin' Out : Who told you to buy a brownstone on my block, in my neighborhood, on my side of the street? Yo, what you wanna live in a Black neighborhood for, anyway? Man, motherfuck gentrification.
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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?
[Sal grabs his bat]
Buggin' Out : You're goddamn right!
Sal : You black cocksucker! I'll fucking tear your fucking nigger ass!
Ahmad : 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!
Radio Raheem : Jump over the motherfucking counter!
Sal : You black cocksucker! You nigger motherfucker!
[Sal smashes Radio Raheem's radio several times]
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Ahmad : Did you see how they had him in a choke hold, man?
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Da Mayor : What you know about me? Can't even pee straight, not even of you. What you know about anything? Unless you... unless you done stood in the door, listened to your five hungry children crying for bread, and you can't do a damn thing about it. Your woman standing there, you can't even look her in the eye. Unless you done that, you don't know me, my pain, my hurt, my feelings. You don't know shit! Don't call me bum. Don't call me a drunk. You all ain't got the sense that God give a Billy goat! Don't call me nothing! It's disrespectful. I know your mamas and your papas raised you better.
Ahmad : Yo, man, I hope you finished your little soliloquy, man. 'Cause first of all, I've been peeing straight for years, understand what I'm saying? And you're right, I wouldn't stand in the doorway and listen to my five children go hungry. I'd be out getting a job, doing something, anything to put food in their mouth. And you're right, I don't want to know your pain. I don't care to know your pain. You're the one who put yourself in this situation, man. Every day, every day, every day, I see you walk up and down this block, inebriated. Never sober! But that's what DA stands for: Da Mayor, Drunk Ass. This man's getting me mad! He don't get no respect here. You'll never get respect here, boy! How you gonna tell me how my parents raised me? I respect those who respect themselves!
