The Sunset Limited (2011 TV Movie)
Samuel L. Jackson: Black
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Quotes
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Black : The light is all around you but you don't see nothing but shadow. And you're the one causing it. It's you. You're the shadow! That's the point.
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White : The things I love are very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that, I thought they were indestructible. They weren't...
Black : And that's what sent you off the edge of the platform, it wasn't nothin' personal?
White : Oh, it's personal, that's what an education does, it makes makes the world personal?
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Black : The drunk's concern ain't that he's gonna die from drinkin', which he is, but that he's gonna run out'a whiskey before he get a chance to do it.
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[last lines]
Black : If you don't never speak again, you know I'll keep your Word. You know I will, you know I'm good for it. Is that okay? Is, is that okay?
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Black : Belief 'aint like unbelief. If you're a believer and you finally got to come to the well of belief itself , then you 'aint got to look no further. There 'aint no further. But the unbelievers got a problem. He's set out to unravel the world. For everything he can point to that 'aint true, he leaves two false things laying there.
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White : What would the difference be, to Him, between a building that was spiritually and morally vacant, and one that was just plain empty?
Black : Hmm, Professor, you're a theologian here, and I didn't even know it.
White : You're being facetious.
Black : I don't know that word - but don't be afraid to talk down to me, you aren't going to hurt my feelings.
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Black : You think He goes around talkin' to people He knows ain't gonna listen to Him in the first place? You think He got *that* kinda free time?
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Black : First thing you got to understand is, I aint got an original thought in my head, if it aint got the lingering scent of divinity to it, I aint interested in it.