Get on the Bus (1996)

Hill Harper: Xavier

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• Xavier : Why are you even going to the march?

  Wendell : Niggas and cars, cars and niggas. Niggas need cars like cars need niggas. I gotta make me some money. You think I'm gonna miss out on all that networking, shit nigga you must be crazy. I got a joke for ya, nigga: What do you get when you cross a million lesbians and the million man march?

  Jay : Ok, what do you get when you cross one million lesbians and the million man march?

  Wendell : Two million mother-fuckers who don't do dick.

  [laughs] 

  Wendell : You niggas somethin' else.

  [Pointing at everybody] 

  Wendell : Nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga, all you niggas!

  Mike : Hey Wendell, I got a joke for you: What do they call a black man with a Lexus dealership?

  Wendell : What?

  Mike : Nigga.

  [Wendell is thrown off the bus with his coat following] 

  Jay : Nigga need Coat like Coat need Nigga!

• Randall : [after Kyle changes seat]  I do mind that you're not man enough to admit you don't love me!

  Junior, aka 'Smooth' : [bus Passengers sarcastic reaction]  Cool, Dad. We're goin' to the Million Man March with a bunch of homos.

  Khalid : Sissy.

  Flip : Tell me I just didn't hear what I think I heard.

  Xavier : What?

  Flip : He said, "You're not man enough to admit that you love me" to him.

  Xavier : So?

  Flip : So? There are faggots on the bus!

  Xavier : Gays don't have a role in the black community?

  Flip : I'm not talking about the black community, I'm talking about the faggots we got on the bus!

  Xavier : How else are they supposed to get to the March?

  Mike : Skip.

• Xavier : You're on a bus - with 20 black men, how do you feel?

  Rick : Black men. White men. All the same to me. I like to think of myself as color blind.

  Xavier : Color blind. Okay, so you didn't notice, at all, that everyone on this bus is black except you. Men of African ancestry, so-called black men, decedents of slaves.

  Rick : Well, we're all brothers under the skin, right?

  Randall : Now we're brothers, just because you're on a black bus.

  Rick : Hey, look, I never wore a white sheet over my head, okay. I'm Jewish.

  Randall : God forbid we should think a Jewish person could be a bigot.

  Xavier : My parents were in the civil rights movement. They had black people at our house all the time.

  Randall : Are you getting this, Xavier? They actually had black people at their house.

• George : Hey, Spike Lee, Junior, are you payin' me for this movie?

  Xavier : No, sir.

  George : Then, I quit. Now, get that damn camera out of my face.

• George : You gonna be one of them Hollywood hot shots.

  Xavier : I just might surprise you.

  George : Yeah, well, that'll be a nice one. Cause Hollywood thinks they got us all figured out - in the evening news.

  Xavier : Yeah, as long as they sum us up in the Four Rs: Rape, Rape, Rob, and Riot.

• George : You got any kids?

  Xavier : No, man.

  George : Keep Jimmy in his pants. Keep him locked up tight. Finish school, you know. Get a career. Get married. Then, start having those babies.

  Xavier : I got my priorities straight. You ain't got to worry about me.

• Evan Thomas Sr. : Hey, hey, my name is Evan

  Flip , Xavier , Mike , Jeremiah , Randall , Junior, aka 'Smooth' , Jamal , Kyle : Yeah!

  Evan Thomas Sr. : Evan, Senior

  Flip , Xavier , Mike , Jeremiah , Randall , Junior, aka 'Smooth' , Jamal , Kyle : Yeah!

  Evan Thomas Sr. : They got my son

  Flip , Xavier , Mike , Jeremiah , Randall , Junior, aka 'Smooth' , Jamal , Kyle : Yeah!

  Evan Thomas Sr. : With a misdemeanor

  Evan Thomas Sr. , Flip , Xavier , Mike , Jeremiah , Randall , Junior, aka 'Smooth' , Jamal , Kyle : Roll Call! Shabooya, Sha-sha Shabooya...

• Junior, aka 'Smooth' : Don't call me Evan

  Flip , Xavier , Mike , Jeremiah , Randall , Evan Thomas Sr. , Jamal , Kyle : Yeah!

  Junior, aka 'Smooth' : 'Cause I'm on the move

  Flip , Xavier , Mike , Jeremiah , Randall , Evan Thomas Sr. , Jamal , Kyle : Yeah!

  Junior, aka 'Smooth' : Don't call me Junior

  Flip , Xavier , Mike , Jeremiah , Randall , Evan Thomas Sr. , Jamal , Kyle : Yeah!

  Junior, aka 'Smooth' : But you can call me Smooth

  Junior, aka 'Smooth' , Flip , Xavier , Mike , Jeremiah , Randall , Evan Thomas Sr. , Jamal , Kyle : Roll Call! Shabooya, Sha-sha Shabooya...

• Mike : My name is Mike

  Flip , Xavier , Jeremiah , Randall , Junior, aka 'Smooth' , Evan Thomas Sr. , Jamal , Kyle : Yeah!

  Mike : I represent New York

  Flip , Xavier , Jeremiah , Randall , Junior, aka 'Smooth' , Evan Thomas Sr. , Jamal , Kyle : Yeah!

  Mike : I'm not a Muslim

  Flip , Xavier , Jeremiah , Randall , Junior, aka 'Smooth' , Evan Thomas Sr. , Jamal , Kyle : Yeah!

  Mike : Still don't eat pork

  Mike , Flip , Xavier , Jeremiah , Randall , Junior, aka 'Smooth' , Evan Thomas Sr. , Jamal , Kyle : Roll Call! Shabooya, Sha-sha Shabooya...

• Gary : My name is Gary

  Flip , Xavier , Jeremiah , Randall , Junior, aka 'Smooth' , Evan Thomas Sr. , Kyle , Jamal : Yeah!

  Gary : I'm down with Shelly

  Flip , Xavier , Jeremiah , Randall , Junior, aka 'Smooth' , Evan Thomas Sr. , Kyle , Jamal : Yeah!

  Gary : She's got the butter

  Flip , Xavier , Jeremiah , Randall , Junior, aka 'Smooth' , Evan Thomas Sr. , Kyle , Jamal : Yeah!

  Gary : I got the jelly

  Gary , Flip , Xavier , Jeremiah , Randall , Junior, aka 'Smooth' , Evan Thomas Sr. , Kyle , Jamal : Roll Call! Shabooya, Sha-sha Shabooya...

• Jamal : My name's Jamal

  Flip , Xavier , Jeremiah , Randall , Junior, aka 'Smooth' , Evan Thomas Sr. , Gary , Kyle : Yeah!

  Jamal : My mind is free

  Flip , Xavier , Jeremiah , Randall , Junior, aka 'Smooth' , Evan Thomas Sr. , Gary , Kyle : Yeah!

  Jamal : We need more love

  Flip , Xavier , Jeremiah , Randall , Junior, aka 'Smooth' , Evan Thomas Sr. , Gary , Kyle : Yeah!

  Jamal : And unity

  Jamal , Flip , Xavier , Jeremiah , Randall , Junior, aka 'Smooth' , Evan Thomas Sr. , Gary , Kyle : Roll Call! Shabooya, Sha-sha Shabooya...

• Wendell : You brothers know what I'm sayin' about niggers like Jackson. They all say the same thing: hire us, feed us, affirmative action. Like we need America to keep a nipple in our mouth.

  Xavier : You a Republican or something?

  Wendell : Yeah and damn proud of it.

  Mike : Who you Nigger Gingrich?

  Xavier : You got a problem with that?

  Evan Thomas Sr. : I don't see how any black man could be a Republican.

  Wendell : I don't see how any black man can't.