SAY WHAT...? Pt. 2

Just a few, “quotable quotes,” that always stir my spirit when I hear them. What’s yours?

God told, and explained to Jonah , that the essence of love is to labor for something. One loves that which one labors for and one labors for that which one loves.

--Coach Odom (Ossie Davis), School Daze

You’ll be dead in a year.

--Principal Joe Clark (Morgan Freeman) Lean On Me

Cottonpicker!

--Nigerian Drug Dealer (Lord Michael Banks), Sugar Hill

Are…you…Black?

--Leeds (Samuel L. Jackson) School Daze

This part of my life…this part right here? This is called, “happiness.”

--Christopher Gardner (Will Smith), Pursuit of Happyness

It costs $150 to get in the game. Now if you haven’t got it, agitate the gravel…and take this lame with you.

-- (Enforcer at Zenobia’s) Uptown Saturday Night

You were your ignorance like a badge of honor and you call that being cool. That’s called masturbation. That’s right. It may make you feel good, but it does not produce life.

--Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier), A Piece of the Action

If you ain’t scared, then you don’t got no need for guts.

--Claudine Price (Diahann Carroll) Claudine

You talk more shit than a little bit.

--Julian Eaves (Giancarlo Espisito) School Daze

Don’t jive me.

Ray Charles (Jamie Foxx) Ray