Get on the Bus (1996)

Wendell Pierce: Wendell

Quotes 

• 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!

• Wendell : This is the 1990s. Racism is a figment of the black man's imagination.

• Wendell : Brothers we are movin' into the next millennium. The year 2000 is here! Now, we got to move into the future. If I'm lyin', how do you explain a man like Colin Powell, huh? The white man never kept him down.

  Evan Thomas Sr. : Colin Powell made it in spite of racism, not because it doesn't exist, Brother Tom.

• Wendell : I went to Vanderbilt, in Nashville. I graduated Phi Beta Kappa. You would never catch me goin' to one of them nigger schools, like Tennessee State or Fisk. Gee, all them niggers know how to do is step and sing. Sell fish sandwiches to get text books. Shit.

• Wendell : One positive thing about Farrakhan, he don't have that nigger attitude like Jesse Rainbow Coalition Jackson.

  George : Then you go beggin' for a ride on this bus and you gonna get on the bus and dis Farrakhan and Rev. Jackson. Huh, because of Rev. Jackson, I am somebody.

• 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.