Penitentiary (1979)

Leon Isaac Kennedy: Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone

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• 'Half Dead' Johnson : You box?

  Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone : Not really. Why?

  'Half Dead' Johnson : Boxing tournament coming up. Big fun. They bring the lady trustees from across the way. You ought to see them fools showin' off for them slutty broads.

  Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone : You box?

  'Half Dead' Johnson : Hell no. Half Dead don't box. I kill.

• Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone : Now, you finished playin' that cowboy shit for the night? Cause if not, I can keep whippin' on your ugly ass all night long.

• 'Half Dead' Johnson : I'm gonna bust you!

  Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone : I'm gonna bust you back.

  'Half Dead' Johnson : Bust you. I'm gonna bust you!

• Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone : Right on.

  Eugene T. Lawson : Don't talk to me with that hippy-dippy shit. I'm a man. I'm no hippy-dippy fool.

• Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone : Don't nobody have to be nobody's property.

• Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone : Uh, where do I put my stuff?

  Eugene T. Lawson : Up your ass.

• Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone : Shit! Ali ain't got nothin' on the kid.

• Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone : Do you hear me? I mean, this ain't no Mr. Goodbar I'm talkin' about. This is some real, live, hot, steamy, hairy pussy.

• Sweet Pea : Keep your ass clean.

  Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone : Are you gonna hold inspection too, sir?

  Sweet Pea : A wise guy, huh? A wise guy. Just do like I tell ya and everything'll be all right.

• Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone : You know who I am?

  Linda : Yes. You're Martel Gordone. And I know why they call you Too Sweet.

• Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone : Just because you ugly don't mean you bad.

• Linda : Too Sweet, we got to live now.

  Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone : Now, don't give me that bull shit, Linda.

• Eugene T. Lawson : Aw, come on, man. You know what's happenin'. Everybody knows what's happenin'. I've been, as they say, 'tampered with'.

  Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone : Hey, man, that ain't my thing. If five fingers can't get it done, it don't get done.

• Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone : Mind if I squat?

  Eugene T. Lawson : It's a free prison, isn't it?

• Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone : So man, you ain't human. I mean, I'm talkin' about pussy and here you are readin' a book. You've been locked up for God knows how long...

  Hezzikia 'Seldom Seen' Jackson : Thirty-five years. That's right. Thirty-five long years. And fifteen before that. That's right. I've been in the Pen fifty of the sixty-five years I've been on this earth. And I damn sure ain't about to get myself all worked up over no pussy for a week contest. Do you hear where I'm comin' from? Survival. That's my first concern. I faced myself - a long time ago. I'm nothin' and I faced it. Thirty-five years and I've learned to be content. I just deal with the me that's in here. I just lay back and relax and keep my mind together. Cause I now believe that I'm the one's free. The freer the man in the world. The rest of the world is locked up. They're locked out. And Too Sweet once I quit believin' that, I might as well push a bunk up against the wall, tie a sheet around my neck, and jump off. Why, I'd go completely crazy. They call that institutionalized, Too Sweet. Institutionalized. And I'm it.