Mahogany (1975)

Diana Ross: Tracy Chambers

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• Tracy : Did you see those people? They love me! They all love me. The men love me, the women love me. Mahogany.

• Tracy : My old man left me with 6 kids, the heat's been off for weeks, and they all got the flu. What are you gonna do about that?

  Brian : [Brian speaks on microphone]  Who said that? Will the lady who said that please step... I can't see who said that. Please let the lady who said that step forward, please.

  Tracy : Mr. Walker. When you're elected, what are you gonna do to help me?

  Brian : Do you want me to help with your landlord, lady?

  Tracy : Hell no! I want you to help me get my old man back!

  Brian : Well, madam, if you really want your old man back, are you prepared to stand by him when the goings gettin' rough?

  Tracy : Yes!

  Brian : Madam, would you be willing to put your imagination to work on behalf of the cause he's fighting for?

  Tracy : [Tracy raises her fist]  Yes!

  Brian : Madam, would you love and cherish him for the rest of your life?

  Tracy : Yes!

  Brian : Madam...

  Tracy : Yes.

  Brian : If you're willing to do all that, I guarantee you I'll get you your old man back.

  Tracy : Then, mister, you got my vote.

  [Brian and Tracy kiss in the crowd] 

• Tracy : Hey, mister, want to buy a piece of ass? Come on, sucker, you want some booty? Yeah, you man, I'm talkin' to you. Come on, you want somethin', shit? What chu want? You got some money? Well, guess you can't please everybody.

• Brian : I'm afraid to ask, but, are you Tracy Chambers?

  Tracy : I'm afraid so. I'm afraid you're Brian Walker - which makes us both afraid. Good thing we're near a police station.

• Brian : Why don't I come by tonight with the money and see if we can come up with something we can feel guilty about *together*.

  Tracy : Whoa, Jack. I don't think you got the signals.

• Florence : She don't know nothin' about no Rome.

  Sean : I know it. They'd like that best of all.

  Tracy : What do you mean by that?

  Sean : I don't know. Your glow. Your innocence.

• Tracy : This is fashion stuff, not politics.

  Brian : Everything's politics, honey.

  Tracy : Maybe to you, Brian. But, not to me.

• Tracy : What chu gonna do about gettin' my old man back? 'Cause I sure do need my old man. I can't get along without my old man. Ain't none of us can get along without our old man. What about you? We all need our old man! Help me get my old man back!

• Tracy : Brian, I'm from down here, too. Are you forgetting that?

  Brian : I'm just wondering if maybe *you* are.

  Tracy : One thing I can't forget and that's how many times I've been told what I can't do, where I can't go, and why can't I be different from anybody else. 'Cause that's all I've had to keep track of, all my life, from everybody.

• Tracy : It's show biz! You gotta give 'em some pizzaz! Show 'em your charm. Oow!

  [singing] 

  Tracy : People stop that sighin', And get out and vote for Brian, I said, People stop that sighin', And get out and vote for Brian, Wooo! People stop that sighin', And get out and vote for Brian...

• Tracy : Every designer in town is going to be there and I want to make sure that not one loose thread is showing.

  Brian : Hey, what's the big deal? They've all said no to you anyway? Look, I just mean you shouldn't get yourself so...

  Tracy : Thanks for the encouragement, pal.

  Brian : Tracy, you don't understand. This dinner is really important.

  Tracy : And what I'm doing isn't, right?

  Brian : What you're doing is getting to be a pain in the ass, if you really want to know. Now, you got yourself involved in something that's really meaningful here.

  Tracy : Yeah, your career. Somehow you seem to be forgetting about mine.

  Brian : I can't forget about something that never existed, Tracy. Don't you think it's about time you faced up to it?

• Brian : Listen to this: Looking out for number one brings out disintegration. It's by pulling together we feel our power and our strength. It's a new tag for the PTA luncheon. What do you think about that?

  Tracy : Look, Brian, what do you get at the PTA? Women, right? That's a little hokey. Talk about something's that down to earth, like: good politics is like good sex. If you're only for yourself, you're going to be by yourself. Then, flash that grand piano of your's you call a smile.

• Tracy : "Mahogany". I wish you would let everybody else call me that and not you.

  Sean : Does that mean you're granting me a privilege or denying me one?

• Tracy : You want to compare me to her?

  Sean : Not to her. To it. Crystal. I give all my creations the names of inanimate objects.

  Tracy : And what are you going to call me? Coat hanger?

  Sean : No. There's only one word that describes rich and dark, beautiful and rare. I'm going to call you: Mahogany.

• Tracy : Crystal. My God, she's magnificent. She's been on every cover in New York.

  Sean : And under every cover in Rome - mostly those of my friends.

• Tracy : Remember? I'm going to be a designer.

  Sean : And so you shall be, my darling; but, let's not try to run - until we've learned how to stroll down a walkway.

• Tracy : I wonder if I'm doing the right thing.

  Carlotta Gavina : One never knows until one has done all the wrong things.

• Christian Rosetti : Isn't being rich and beautiful enough for you?

  Tracy : I'm not rich - and beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

  Christian Rosetti : I've got news for you. So is being rich.

• Tracy : I don't want to see you sorry. I don't want to see you anything. In fact, I don't want to see you!

• Christian Rosetti : They understand you well enough. You see, it's like with dogs. It's the tone, not the words.

  Tracy : I don't have time to be an animal trainer, Christian.

  Christian Rosetti : I understand. But, you see, they don't like...

  Tracy : I'm not paying them to like! I'm paying them to work.

  Christian Rosetti : Correction: I am paying them to work.

• Brian : What's more important than stopping some honky landlord from throwing you out on your behind? How would you like to come home one day from work and find a big hole where your house was?

  Tracy : It couldn't be worse than coming home and find some jackass blowin' at me through a bull horn.