The People Under the Stairs (1991)

Wendy Robie: Woman

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• Ruby Williams : My name is Ruby Williams and I represent the association of people who have been unjustly evicted, exploited and generally fucked over.

  Woman : What?

  Ruby Williams : You and your brother are landlords of over 50 buildings in this city, ALL of which you've allowed to deteriorate into rat infested hellholes while you guys get rich charging ridiculous rents. THEN, you evict anyone the minute they can't pay rent so you can tear down their homes and build some more office buildings, isn't that about right?

• Man : May they burn in hell.

  Woman : Forever and ever in hell.

• Woman : What's a mother to do? Lazy brat sits in her room all day, sewing dolls. Children misbehaving in the basement! And one in the wall, doing his business God knows where. You kids will be the death of me... the death of me.

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

  Woman : You'll do!

  Alice : No!

  [drops out of the ceiling and knocks the Woman's head against the floor] 

  Ruby Williams : Damn, she knocked that bitch cold!

  Second man : Look at her, what they doing to her in there?

• Man : Some niggers robbed the store.

  Woman : Again? May they burn in hell.

  Man : I'm very tense from this.

  Woman : You have one of your headaches?

  Man : Ooh... very VERY tense about this.

  Woman : Alice has been bad. She's been feeding that thing between the walls again.

  Alice : No... no...

  Woman : Remember not to bruise her face.

  [Woman leaves. Man begins taking off his belt to punish Alice] 

  Man : Bad girls... burn in hell.

• Woman : I don't want to see another cop or cookie in my life. I don't know which one makes me sicker.

• Woman : How dare he come into our happy home!

  Man : He came back to get Alice! You should have let me kill her!

  Woman : You stay away from Alice!

  Man : She did it with him! I know it!

  Woman : Not my little girl!

  Man : She's a whore!

• Woman : You didn't lick this, did you?

• [catching Roach and Fool in Alice's room with her] 

  Woman : You viper in my bosom! You little Judas!

  Man : What are we gonna do with 'em, Mommy?

  Woman : It is time to clean house! Total... spring... cleaning.

• 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?

• Woman : Then she can burn in hell. Both of them.

• Woman : Where's the Bear Trooper?

  Man : Dead meat. I could've killed him, but I let the people under the stairs do it.