Malcolm X (1992)

Spike Lee: Shorty

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Quotes 

• Shorty : [rinsing the lye out of Malcolm's hair]  How's it feel?

  Malcolm X : It feels like I ain't got no skin on my head!

• Shorty : See that spot? Get it! The spot... All right, that's it.

• [playing "Cops and Robbers"] 

  Shorty : Yeah, Red!

  Malcolm X : Come on, you missed me!

  Shorty : Try this on for size!

  [makes Tommy-gun noises] 

  Malcolm X : I ducked.

  Shorty : [laughing]  You ducked?

• Malcolm X : That chick is fine as May wine.

  Shorty : Except she lives up on a hill and got a grandmother too.

  Malcolm X : Yeah, she a church girl. So, l don't know what l'm gonna do.

• Shorty : Man, I'm tired of playin' cops all the time. I wanna be Bogart.

  Malcolm X : Well, Shorty, you're too small to be Bogart.

  Shorty : Not too short to be Cagney.

• Shorty : Red, the jig is up.

• Shorty : Homey - my trouble is, l love pigs feet and white women too much. So l damn sure can't be no Muslim.

• Shorty : Take it easy, greasy. This is me. Shorty.