If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

Stephan James: Alonzo 'Fonny' Hunt

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• Fonny : It don't seem to me like there's a reason to treat two Negroes so nicely. I mean, clearly we ain't got a pot nor much of a drink to make piss with. Pardon my French.

  Levy : Look, man, with me it's pretty simple. I dig people who love each other. Black, white. Green, purple. It doesn't even matter to me. Just spread the love, you know?

• Fonny : Do you like me? I mean, when I make love to you? Did you like it?

  Tish Rivers : You just want to hear me say it.

  Fonny : So?

  Tish Rivers : So what?

  Fonny : So why don't you go ahead and say it?

• Tish Rivers : You all right?

  Fonny : Me? I'm not the one who just got punched by a midget inside they belly.

  [pause] 

  Fonny : [Both laugh] 

• Fonny : I'm really gonna have to figure out a way of getting some bread together and getting the fuck out of this country.

  Daniel Carty : Oh yeah! How you gonna do that?

  Fonny : [pause]  I don't know yet. Tish can't swim.

  [Both laugh] 

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  Tish Rivers : You ready for this?

  Fonny : I've never been more ready for anything in my whole life.