Bright Road (1953)

Harry Belafonte: Mr. Williams - School Principal

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• Jane Richards : Oh yes, I want to thank you for that lovely gift.

  School Principal : Oh, I'm glad you liked it. You know I was afraid you might have thought it was a bit too

  [pause] 

  School Principal : too...

  [pause] 

  Jane Richards : Too gay? No, I like to be gay once in a while!

  School Principal : Well that's uh,

  [pause] 

  School Principal : that's fine, just fine.

• School Principal : Be careful, Jane. A good teacher loves the children in her class, but she doesn't let them break her heart. She needs her heart for next semester.

  Jane Richards : You can talk to your heart, but how can you make it listen?

• School Principal : [singing]  True love don't weep, True love don't mourn, True love don't weep, True love don't mourn, True love don't weep, Or mourn to me...

• School Principal : Running away from school, staying away, fighting as soon as you get back. What would you recommend I do?

  C.T. Young : What else is there but a whippin'?

  School Principal : That's right.

  C.T. Young : Well, might as well whip.