Crooklyn (1994)

Zelda Harris: Troy

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• Troy , Viola : I like coffee, I like tea, I like the colored boy, And he likes me. So step back, white boy, You don't shine, I'll get the colored boy, To kick your behind.

• Carolyn : [hears that the TV is on]  Is the TV on? I said is the TV on?

  Clinton , Wendell , Nate , Troy , Joseph : No!

• Troy : [watching "The Partridge Family" on TV]  Quiet. It's the good part.

  Clinton : Let's watch the Knicks!

  Troy , Joseph , Nate : [singing]  I woke up in love this mornin'

  Wendell : [speaking]  They don't know what they want. They're all turnin' so white.

  Troy , Joseph , Nate : [singing]  I woke up in love this mornin'

  Clinton : [speaking]  They wanna be white.

  Troy , Joseph , Nate , Wendell : [singing]  Went to sleep with you on my mind

  Troy , Joseph , Nate , Wendell , Clinton : [singing]  I woke up in love this mornin', I woke up in love this morning', Went to sleep with you on my mind...

• Troy : Sorry I called your mother a ho.

  Possom (Greg) : And are you sorry about teasin' me about bein' left back three times and about bein' on welfare, about me and my brothers havin' three different fathers?

  Troy : All right, already. I said I was sorry.

  Possom (Greg) : You better be!

• Carolyn : I want you to go to the supermarket and get some things for dinner.

  Troy : Mommy, I hate food stamps. Besides, we ain't even on welfare.

  Carolyn : Stop sayin' "ain't"! You better be glad we got some food stamps. Go on.

  Troy : Mommy! Everyone's gonna laugh at me.

  Carolyn : Ain't nobody gonna laugh at you that ain't on welfare theyself. Scat!

  Troy : How come I have to go?

  Carolyn : Do you want to have dinner tonight, Troy? Go!

• Carolyn : What on earth happened to you?

  Troy : She took the darn change too!

  Carolyn : Who?

  Troy : Peanut!

  Carolyn : What were you doin'?

  Troy : Standin' there gettin' beat up.

  Carolyn : Some boy beat you up?

  Nate : Peanut's a girl.

  Carolyn : How big is she?

  Troy : Six-Two, 200 pounds.

  Carolyn : Troy! You round here wrestlin' and punchin' your brothers all the time and you let some girl named Peanut take my groceries and my food stamps? I oughta whip your butt my damn self.

• Woody : [singing]  Roll on, Citroen Roll on, Roll on, Citroen, roll on, Roll on down the road

  Clinton : [speaking]  How many times you wanna sing that same old song?

  Woody : What? Y'all don't like my song?

  Clinton , Wendell , Joseph , Nate , Troy : No!

• Troy : [singing along with a TV commercial]  Beautiful people use Afro Sheen...

• Aunt Maxine : So you were ready to come on home, Troy, huh? You had enough of the South. I don't blame you one bit.

  Troy : Mm-hmm. It's too slow.

  Uncle Brown : Y'all don't know what y'all missin' growin' up in the South.

  Aunt Maxine : I'm glad I missed it.

• Troy : What's that funny noise outside?

  Viola : You ain't never heard crickets before?

• Troy : Thanks for the ticket. I didn't get a chance to write.

  Aunt Maxine : You're very welcome.

  Uncle Brown : That's what family's for. Gotta stick together, right?

  Troy : Right.

  Uncle Brown : Sure you're right.

• Troy , Viola : Eeny-meeny, Sissaleeny, Ooh-ah combaleeny, Oshie-koshie, Liberace, I love you. Take a peach, Take a plum, Take a stick of bubble gum, No peach, No plum, Just a stick of bubble gum.

• Joseph : You're hurting me!

  Troy : Be quiet. Doesn't hurt. If you combed it a little more often, it wouldn't be lookin' all like a sheep's behind.

• Clinton : Shut up, you evil, flat-chested wench.

  Troy : Just for that you're not getting it and I'm telling Ma you called me an evil, flat-chested wench.

  Clinton : Go ahead. Tell her. You are an evil, flat-chested wench! And I'll tell her you went out to the store.

  Troy : Nigger.

  Clinton : Pop-eyed heifer.

  Troy : All right, you greedy pig!

• Joseph : Does this mean we can't watch TV?

  Wendell : That's right. No cartoons.

  Clinton : No Brady Bunch or Partridge Family for Troy and Nate.

  Nate : Hey, nigger, I don't watch that show.

  Clinton : You do so watch that show.

  Nate : Liar.

  Clinton : Nigger.

  Carolyn : Stop calling each other nigger.

  Troy : And you can't watch the Knicks.

  Woody : Come on. Let's just eat in peace.

• Viola : You better stop jumping on the bed before she comes in.

  Troy : I don't care. I hate this place anyway. And besides, my dog could kill your little *rat* dog, anyway.

  Viola : I don't care either, and it ain't my dog; it's Mama's dog.