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“[after telling Celie she knows how she feels] Oh...Sofia home, now. Sofia home. Things is gonna be changin' around here. Pass me them peas, boy.”
— Sofia, The Color Purple
Tagged: new leaf
“Sat in that jail, I sat in that jail 'til I near about done rot to death. I know what it like to wanna go somewhere and cain't. I know what it like to wanna sing...and have it beat out 'ya. I want to thank you, Miss Celie, fo everything you done for me. I 'members that day in the store with Miss Millie—I's feelin' real down. I's feelin' mighty bad. And when I seed you—I know'd there is a God. I know'd there is a God.”
— Sofia, The Color Purple
Tagged: Jail, God
“Celie: [lunging towards Albert with a knife] I curse you. Until you do right by me everything you think about is gonna crumble!

Sofia: Don't do it, Mrs. Celie. Don't trade places with what I been through.

Shug: Come on, Celie, let's go to the car.

Sofia: He ain't worth it, he ain't worth it.

Albert: Who you think you is? You can curse nobody. Look at you. You're black, you're poor, you're ugly, you're a woman, you're nothing at all!

Celie: Until you do right by me, everything you even think about gonna fail!

Grady: It's been a pleasure meeting all of you. Goodbye.”
— Sofia, The Color Purple
Tagged: Threats, Domestic Violence, Black, poor, ugly, Woman
“I loves Harpo, God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead 'fo I let him beat me.”
— Sofia, The Color Purple
Tagged: Threats, Domestic Violence
“All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. A girl child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I'd have to fight in my own house!”
— Sofia, The Color Purple
Tagged: Fight, Misandry
“The money came, still wasn't sunny for me after that.”
— Kevin Gates, Wrong Love
Tagged: Sad, Money Does Not Buy Happiness, Cash And Your Mood
“Netflix, by its very nature, is full of shit: How many hours have you lost scrolling through its menus, dead-eyed, feeling nothing, while you try to sift through everything that's bad, everything you've already seen twice, and everything bad that you watched twice already anyway?”
— Tom Philip, These Are the Eight Best Hidden Gems on Netflix
Tagged: Netflix, Movies And Television
“I used to want to save the world. To end war and bring peace to mankind. But then I glimpsed the darkness that lives within their light and learned that inside every one of them, there will always be both. A choice each must make for themselves. Something no hero will ever defeat. And now I know, that only love can truly save the world. So I stay, I fight, and I give, for the world I know can be. This is my mission now. Forever.”
— Diana Prince / Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman
Tagged: Mission of Wonder Woman, Saving The World, Choice, Fighting For What You Believe In
“I’m willing to fight for those who cannot fight for themselves.”
— Diana Prince / Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman
Tagged: charity, Taking Care Of The Weak, Christianity Morality, Fighting For The Weak
“It’s not about deserve. It’s about what you believe. And I believe in love.”
— Diana Prince / Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman
Tagged: Belief, Entitlement, Wonder Woman
“What one does when faced with the truth is more difficult than you would think.”
— Diana Prince / Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman
Tagged: Truth, Complexity
“I had no father. My mother sculpted me from clay and I was brought to life by Zeus.”
— Diana Prince / Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman
Tagged: Wonder Woman, Goddess, Zeus, Being Sculpted By Gods
“He pulled me into his Kia, and he said to me, 'Sandra take out your taters'.”
— Sandra Kaluiokalani, Superstore, Season 2: Rebranding
Tagged: Sandra From Superstore
“We spend hours on the phone, just talking. He loves my taste in music. I spend the night at his hotel when he's in town. We make love on silk sheets. Oh, God, he's gentle and strong. Sometimes he's dark. He took me to the edge of his balcony once and he asked, 'Are you afraid?' And I said, 'Yes.' And he said, 'Good.' That's how I feel with you. And then we made love. And then we ate dinner, Mm, and it was fancy. He thinks I'm prettier than my sister. Yeah.”
— Sandra Kaluiokalani, Superstore, Season 2: Ladies' Lunch
Tagged: Funny Monologues, Being Seduced
“Welcome to the no options club. It's a cool club. Most of America's in it. We meet on Tuesdays.”
— Amy Dubanowski, Superstore, Season 2: Rebranding
Tagged: No Options Club, No Economic Mobility, Playful Jokes About Being Poor
“In Virginia, high school football is a way of life, it's bigger than Christmas day. My daddy coached in Alexandria, he worked so hard my momma left him, but I stayed with coach, he needed me on that field.”
— Sheryl Yoast, Remember the Titans
Tagged: Football, virginia football, Virginia, christmas day, alexandria
“Blue Stanton: [begins to silently sing, gradually getting louder] 'Cause baby there ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no valley low enough, ain't...

Big Ju: [slaps Blue's arm] Blue. Shut up. I don't want to see your smilin' and shuff in' and hear all your minstrel show singing on this bus. [looks towards other singer] You, too.

Bertier: Got that right.

Big Ju: [turns towards him, annoyed] You can shut up, too.”
— Blue Stanton, Remember the Titans
Tagged: Singing, shut up, ain't no mountain high enough
“Blue Stanton: Five, Six, Five Six Seven Eight!

Team: [Echoed] Everywhere we go—everywhere we go...people wanna know...people wanna know....who we are....who we are-, so we tell them...so we tell them....We Are The Titans!...We Are The Titans!...The Mighty Mighty Titans! -The Mighty Mighty Titans!...”
— Blue Stanton, Remember the Titans
Tagged: football chants, mighty titans
“Bertier: Hey, Julius I was thinking we could...

Ronnie 'Sunshine' Bass: He's taking a shower.

Bertier: What do you want, man?

Ronnie 'Sunshine' Bass: You know what I want. [kisses him and Gary starts trying to punch him. The team is holding Gary back]

Big Ju: There's too much male bonding in here.

Bertier: Enough!

Big Ju: What is going on here?

Bertier: He kissed me!”
— Gerry Bertier, Remember the Titans
Tagged: Male Bonding, shower, men kissing
“Bertier: [the Titans have just had a touchdown scored against them in the State Championship] NO! Nooooooooo!

Nurse: [Nurse comes running in] What's wrong, Gerry?

Bertier: Do not come in here! [Nurse exits hurriedly, followed by a projectile]”
— Gerry Bertier, Remember the Titans
Tagged: Loss, touchdown, state championship
“Bertier: Listen, I'm Gerry, you're Julius. Let's just get some particulars and get this over with.

Big Ju: Particulars? Man, no matter what I tell you, you ain't never gonna know nothing about me.

Bertier: Listen, I ain't running any more of these three-a-days.

Big Ju: Well, what I've got to say, you really don't wanna hear 'cuz honesty ain't too high upon your people's priorities list.

Bertier: Honesty? You want honesty? Alright, honestly, I think you're nothing. Nothing but a pure waste of God-given talent. You don't listen to nobody, man! Not even Doc or Boone! Shiver push on the line every time and you blow right past 'em! Push 'em, pull 'em, do something! You can't run over everybody in this league, and every time you do you leave one of your teammates hanging out to dry, me in particular!

Big Ju: Why should I give a hoot about you, huh? Or anyone else out there? You wanna talk about the ways you're the captain, right?

Bertier: Right.

Big Ju: You got a job?

Bertier: I've got a job.

Big Ju: You been doing your job?

Bertier: I've been doing my job.

Big Ju: Then why don't you tell your white buddies to block for Rev better? Because they have not blocked for him worth a plug nickel, and you know it! Nobody plays. Yourself included. I'm supposed to wear myself out for the team? What team? Nah, nah what I'm gonna do is look out for myself and I'ma get mine.

Bertier: See man, that's the worst attitude I ever heard.

Big Ju: Attitude reflects leadership, captain.”
— Gerry Bertier, Remember the Titans
Tagged: Honesty, waste of talent
“Bertier: [sees Sunshine get out of car with long hair] Hey fellas! Look at that fruitcake!

Coach Yoast: Gerry, just keep your mouth shut and get back on that field!

Colonel William G. Bass: Coach Boone, I'm Colonel Bass. We just got transferred here from Huntington Beach, California. This is my son, Ronnie, he's a quarterback.

Coach Boone: [shakes Sunshine's hand] How you doin' Ronnie?

Colonel William G. Bass: Coach Yoast.

Coach Yoast: [shakes Sunshine's hand as well] My pleasure.

Coach Boone: We're pretty set at the, uh, quarterback Colonel. But if the boy's any good, you might want to check out Wilson or Annandale.

Colonel William G. Bass: Well, I met Coach Taber. He won't let blacks play on his team. The way I see it, if these boys can fight a war together, they can play football together. Now, he's a pretty good runner... [Sunshine throws football towards Gerry, who is standing far away. The football hits Gerry square in the back. He turns around, angrily]

Big Ju: [laughing hysterically] Yeah, a fruitcake, huh?”
— Coach Bill Yoast, Remember the Titans
Tagged: fruitcake, Football, Runner
“All right, now, I don't want them to gain another yard! You blitz...all...night! If they cross the line of scrimmage, I'm gonna take every last one of you out! You make sure they remember, forever, the night they played the Titans! [defense cheers] Leave no doubt!”
— Coach Bill Yoast, Remember the Titans
Tagged: pep talk, Scrimmage, blitz
“Coach Yoast: I think this is a very good time for prayer and reflection...

Bertier: Coach, I'm hurt. I'm not dead.”
— Coach Bill Yoast, Remember the Titans
Tagged: prayer, Reflection, Panic, worry
“Petey Jones: Hey, hey, Lastik man what happened to you?

Louie Lastik: [holding back, in fake pain] Man I just gave your momma a piggy-back ride and she weighs twice as much as I do!

Petey Jones: That ain't funny!”
— Gregory Allen Howard, Remember the Titans
Tagged: Yo mama jokes
“I'm a winner. I'm going to win.”
— Coach Herman Boone, Remember the Titans
Tagged: winning and losing, Winner, Confidence
“Coach Boone: It's all right. We're in a fight. You boys are doing all that you can do. Anybody can see that. Win or lose... We gonna walk out of this stadium tonight with our heads held high. Do your best. That's all anybody can ask for.

Big Ju: No, it ain't Coach. With all due respect, uh, you demanded more of us. You demanded perfection. Now, I ain't saying that I'm perfect, 'cause I'm not. And I ain't gonna never be. None of us are. But we have won every single game we have played till now. So this team is perfect. We stepped out on that field that way tonight. And, uh, if it's all the same to you, Coach Boone, that's how we want to leave it.

Coach Yost: Yeah. I hope you boys have learned as much from me this year as I've learned from you. You've taught this city how to trust the soul of a man rather than the look of him. And I guess it's about time I joined the club.”
— Coach Herman Boone, Remember the Titans
Tagged: Respect, Perfection, winning and losing
“[to his players] Tonight we've got Hayfield. Like all the other schools in this conference, they're all white. They don't have to worry about race. We do. let me tell you something: you don't let anyone come between us. Nothing tears us apart. In Greek mythology, the Titans were greater even than the gods. They ruled their universe with absolute power. Well that football field out there, that's our universe. Let's rule it like titans.”
— Coach Herman Boone, Remember the Titans
Tagged: Race, Black and White, Greek Mythology
“Coach Boone: [after Gary got into his car accident] I don't know mama, maybe Yost was right. Maybe I pushed him too hard.

Carol Boone: Gary had an accident. Sometimes life's just hard, for no reason at all.

Coach Boone: Do you think I was blinded by my own ambition?

Carol Boone: Whatever kind of ambition it took to do what you did around here, this world could use a lot more of it Herman.”
— Coach Herman Boone, Remember the Titans
Tagged: accident, Life Is Hard, blinded, Ambition
“Coach Yoast: This isn't about me, I'm worried about my boys.

Coach Boone: Well I'm not going to cut 'em and eat 'em. The best player will play, color won't matter.

Coach Yoast: From the looks of our little situation we got us here, I think that's about all that he does.

Coach Boone: Yeah, you're right. We're in a tough spot, coach. You, me, the whole city. I think it'd go a long way to smooth things over if you'd stay, work on the staff, be a defensive coordinator, assistant head coach.

Coach Yoast: Work under you.

Coach Boone: If that's the way you see it.

Coach Yoast: Good night, Coach.”
— Coach Herman Boone, Remember the Titans
Tagged: Football, Coaching

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