School Daze (1988)
Laurence Fishburne: Dap Dunlap
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Quotes
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Dap : [shouts] Wake up!
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Dap : I thought y'all was down for the cause.
Da Fella Grady : Yeah, you my brother, but God damn, man.
Da Fella Jordan : You should lighten up on that shit, Malcolm, seriously.
Da Fella Booker T. : He's right, Nat Turner.
Da Fella Grady : Marcus Garvey.
Da Fella Monroe : Frederick Douglass.
Dap : Yeah. You all can kiss my black ass twice, hear?
Da Fella Booker T. : Preach, Jesse. Preach on.
Da Fella Edge : Yo, Farrakhan, relax. Don't be so sensitive, my man. Chill.
Dap : Well, what about the parade? Somebody comin' to the parade with me, maybe?
Da Fella Grady : Hey, I'm down, man, but not tonight. I gots to see some butt shaking, you know.
Da Fella Edge : Word up. I'm with him. That ain't no joke, man.
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Dap : Tell them what they want to hear. You know, lie your butt off, man. Okay, okay. Better yet - just be yourself, Darrell, okay?
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Dap : Well, fuck 'em. I don't give two muthafucks about 'em.
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Dap : They change people. You won't be the same. People change for the worse after they pledge. If I seen it once, I seen it a million times.
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Da Fella Booker T. : Dap, man. You know I love you like my brother, man, but I mean, what is wrong with wanting to have a nice job?
Da Fella Monroe : I don't think anything's wrong.
Da Fella Booker T. : Yo, man, my daddy, my mama they slaved all their damn life to send my black ass to school.
Dap : Do you think I got bank?
Da Fella Booker T. : Hey, I'm not finished, man. I'll be the first one in my family to go to college. I mean, Dap, man, do you realise what that means? I mean, the first one ever. And all my family has always been sharecroppers since slavery.
Dap : And apartheid is slavery.
Da Fella Booker T. : You can do what you want to do, Dap. I ain't throwin' it away for nobody. Not you, not Bishop Tutu, not even Jesus Christ Himself.
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Dap : So what? You marched with King in the '60s. Big deal. That was over 20 years ago. Black people still catching hell all over the world, you know.
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Leeds : Are you black?
Dap : Look, man, don't ever question the fact whether I'm black. In fact, I was going to ask your country-bama ass, why you got them drip-drip chemicals in your hair?
Da Fella Edge : That's right, God damn it.
Dap : And then come out in public with a shower cap on your head.
Da Fella Jordan : Like a fucking bitch!
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[first lines]
Dap : Yo! This is it. Once again we, as a people, are late. That's right. Late, late and more late. Now, how is it that Columbia, Dartmouth, Yale, all of these supposed greater institutions of higher learning can beat us, Mission College, to the punch? Again I ask, how is this? Can anybody here answer this little question for me? This question. How is it that all of the schools that I have mentioned and a lot more, I might add, how is it that they have divested all of their money in South Africa? And we backwoods negroes here at the so-called finest black college in the land - Mission College - we are holding onto ours? Holding onto it like a wino clutching his last bottle. Till we have completely divested, we need to march, we need to protest, we need to disrupt classes, we need to sit in, we need to shut the school down if need be.
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Rachel Meadows : With you it's a crusade. I'm beginning to think you're color struck. You definitely have a thing against light-skinned blacks.
Dap : Who, me?
Rachel Meadows : Yes, you.
Dap : No, no, Rachel. It's them. It's not me. Come on, I adore octoroon, quadroon mulattoes. They're so un-pure.
Rachel Meadows : And you're 100% pure? Massa was in your ancestors' slave quarters just like everybody else.
Dap : No, no, no, no. No white blood in me. My stock 100 pure Zulu, Masai. Nubian knight of Bingyjoint.
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Dap : Hey, look, I need y'all, man. The rest of these okey-doke Negroes is too worried about graduating... and getting a Brooks Brothers suit. But y'all, I need your back. Hey, look, if you all ain't down, you all just another bunch... of foot-shuffling, wannabe white Uncle Toms, as far as I'm concerned.
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Dap : For the sissies!
Da Fella Grady , Da Fella Jordan , Da Fella Booker T. , Da Fella Monroe , Da Fella Edge : Good God, yes!
Dap : When I say Gamma, you say fag. Gamma!
Da Fella Grady , Da Fella Jordan , Da Fella Booker T. , Da Fella Monroe , Da Fella Edge : Fag!
Dap : When I say Gamma, you say fag. Gamma!
Da Fella Grady , Da Fella Jordan , Da Fella Booker T. , Da Fella Monroe , Da Fella Edge : Fag!
Dap : Gamma, Gamma!
Da Fella Grady , Da Fella Jordan , Da Fella Booker T. , Da Fella Monroe , Da Fella Edge : Fag, fag!
Dap : Gamma, Gamma!
Da Fella Grady , Da Fella Jordan , Da Fella Booker T. , Da Fella Monroe , Da Fella Edge : Fag, fag!
Dap : Gamma, Gamma, Gamma, Gamma!
Da Fella Grady , Da Fella Jordan , Da Fella Booker T. , Da Fella Monroe , Da Fella Edge : Fag, fag, fag, fag!
Dap , Da Fella Grady , Da Fella Jordan , Da Fella Booker T. , Da Fella Monroe , Da Fella Edge : Get back, or we'll kick your Gamma ass...