A Different World (1987–1993)

Charnele Brown: Kim Reese

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• Shazza Zulu : Look, if we as Hillman men don't treat our women right, they'll go to somebody white. Kim Reese did!

  Kim Reese : You pseudo-intellectual male with a pseudo-African name spouting pseudo-philosophy about a whole bunch of nothing! In fact, the only thing about you that's real are your green eyes... MY BRUTHA!

• [the class has decided to leave a time capsule to be remembered by] 

  African Student : Excuse me, please, but what is a time capsule?

  Kim Reese : A time capsule is when people bury something that's important to them and then dig them up later.

  Ron Johnson : Like dogs with bones.

  [pause] 

  Ron Johnson : Or women with grudges.

• Whitley Marion Gilbert Wayne : [after sleeping with Dwayne the night before]  Last night didn't mean anything. As far as Dwayne is concerned, that ship has sailed and sunk.

  Kim Reese : Not if you can't tell Bryon about it.

  Whitley Marion Gilbert Wayne : Why? We're not even an official couple yet.

  Kim Reese : Whitley, if you can't tell him, maybe last night meant more than you think.

  Whitley Marion Gilbert Wayne : Such pearls of wisdom from one who pines over that swine Ron Johnson.

  Kim Reese : Well, at least I've got it numbered down to one.

  Whitley Marion Gilbert Wayne : But has he?

• Kim Reese : [crying after Claire Huxstable asks about her career goals]  Everybody expects me to be good I'm not good. What if I mess up on a patient? I can't even chop zuchini.