The People Under the Stairs (1991)

Bill Cobbs: Grandpa Booker

Quotes 

• Grandpa Booker : Meanwhile, you be careful. That brother and sister act you mess with are evil, plain and simple.

  Fool : Wait a minute, brother and sister?

  Grandpa Booker : Brother and sister. Tailend of the craziest family you ever heard of. Every generation more insane than the one before it. Started out as a family running a funeral home, selling cheap coffins for expensive prices. Then they got their fingers into real estate, started making a lot of money taking over people's homes. The more money they got, the greedier they got. The greedier they got, the crazier they got. All sorts of rumors about what's going on in that place. Never proved it because the police never took it serious. But believe me, when I was a kid, none of us ever walked past that house.

• Woman : Get off my property!

  Grandpa Booker : Just want to finish saying our piece, ma'am.

  Ruby Williams : Not only are you bad landlords but 10 times worse. You've stolen all the children from our community for your own sick needs!

  Woman : There's no community here, all I see are a couple of ni...

  [the entire neighborhood comes up behind Ruby and Booker] 

  First man : Ruby, right here!

  First woman : Got that right!

  Second woman : We busted your ass, bitch!

  Ruby Williams : What're you gonna do, shoot us all?