Monthly Archives: February 2015
Movie Quote of the Day – Beyond The Lights, 2014 (dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood)
Kaz: I see you. I see you.
Movie Quote of the Day – Girlfight, 2000 (dir. Karyn Kusama)
Hector: Inside, you know yourself?
Diana Guzman: Yeah. I do.
Hector: Then that’s all you need.
Movie Quote of the Day – Monster, 2003 (dir. Patty Jenkins)
Aileen: Sometimes I think everybody just thinks I’m this bad shitty fucking person, and all I’m fucking tryin’ to do is survive, you know?
Thomas: I know.
Aileen: Yeah.
Thomas: I know exactly. I know what you do for a living. It doesn’t bother me. I know you didn’t dial it up on a goddamn telephone. That’s where you landed. That’s what you had to do. What you’re feeling right now is just guilt, over something you had absolutely no control over. You know how many of us came back from the war? And almost killed ourselves because we felt exactly the same thing you do, right now.
Aileen: Yeah?
Thomas: Yeah. And they’ll never get it. They don’t get it now, they never got it then, and they sure as hell won’t get fucking circumstance!
Aileen: Fuck, man, circumstance, that’s exactly it, that’s exactly it. You know it’s like I feel like I never even had a fucking choice.
Thomas: You never did! But you gotta live. You gotta live.
Aileen: That’s it. Okay.
Movie Quote of the Day – Cairo Time, 2010 (dir. Ruba Nadda)
Juliette Grant: Why is everyone starring?
Tareq Khalifa: This cafe is for men.
Juliette Grant: What do the women do?
Tareq Khalifa: Other things.
Juliette Grant: No one said anything.
Tareq Khalifa: No, that would be rude.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Watermelon Woman, 1996 (dir. Cheryl Dunye)
Cheryl: Hi, I’m Cheryl and I’m a filmmaker. Uh, no, I’m not really a filmmaker, but I have a videotaping business with my friend Tamara and I work at a video store, so I’m working on being a filmmaker. The problem is I don’t know what I want to make a film on. I know it has to be about black women because our stories have never been told, so I’ve been renting movies — no, I haven’t been renting movies, but I get movies from the video store I work at and I’ve taken out all these films from the 30s and 40s with black actresses in them, like, um Hattie McDaniel and Louise Beavers and um, in these films, in some of these films, the black actresses aren’t even listed in the credits and I was just totally shocked by that.
Movie Quote of the Day – Daughters of the Dust, 1991 (dir. Julie Dash)
Eli Peazant: What’re we supposed to remember, Nana? How, at one time, were we able to protect those we loved? How, in Africa world, we were kings and queens and built great big cities?
Nana Peazant: Eli, I’m trying to learn you how to touch your own spirit. I’m fighting for my life and I’m fighting for your’n. Look in my face! I’m trying to give you something to take North with you, along with all your great big dreams! Count on those old Africans, Eli, they come to you when you least expect ’em. They hug you up quick and soft as the warm sweet wind. Let them old souls come into you, hardy-like. Let them touch you with the hand of time, let them feed your head with wisdom that came from this day in time. Cuz when you leave this island, Eli Peazant, you ain’t goin’ to no land of milk and honey.
Movie Quote of the Day – Impulse, 1990 (dir. Sondra Locke)
Lottie: You wanna know my first impression of you?
Stan: Yeah.
Lottie: That you’re an unhappy, tight-ass, reactionary, who’ll spend the rest of his life spitting into the wind.
Stan: Well, I’m happy.
Lottie: Okay then, a happy, tight-ass, reactionary, who’ll spend the rest of his life spitting into the wind.
Stan: Hmm. But, do you like me?
Movie Quote of the Day – Black Sheep, 1996 (dir. Penelope Spheeris)
Steve: Buddy, are you okay?
Drake: I’m not far from dragging you out of the car and beating you to dust.
Steve: You should work up to that, kinda leaves you nowhere to go.
Movie Quote of the Day – La hija natural, 2011 (dir. Leticia Tonos)
Juana: Any woman who believes what a man says is hopeless.
Movie Quote of the Day – Frozen River, 2008 (dir. Courtney Hunt)
Ray Eddy: What if a trooper stops us?
Lila Littlewolf: They’re not gonna stop you, you’re white.
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