Band of Angels (1957)

Sidney Poitier: Rau-Ru

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• Rau-Ru : I hate him - for his kindness. That's worse than the rawhide. When a man uses a whip, you know what there is to fight against. But this kindness, it's a trap that can hold you in bondage forever!

• Rau-Ru : French poetry. A gift, no doubt, from Monsieur Charles. That perfumed peacock. You deluded little coquette. Don't you know his reputation? Every slave he owns is scarred by the whip. People of our blood, of *your* blood.

  Amantha Starr : I don't want to hear about it.

  Rau-Ru : Gives you a sense of power, doesn't it? White men dancing attendance. But it still isn't freedom. Freedom's a white word. And the fact is, you and I, aside from being male and female, are exactly alike.

• Rau-Ru : I hear you've been doing very well on the white side of the line. Now you come crawling back here.

  Amantha Starr : You detest me, don't you? Because I was the cause of their putting the hounds on you at Pointe du Loup.

  Rau-Ru : I don't hold that against you. It's the lie you've been living that I despise.

• Hamish Bond : The world is full of fools.

  Rau-Ru : Of all colors, monsieur. The cry for freedom is in the air like a rising wind. Slaves have already gone wild on many plantations.

• Rau-Ru : People don't usually try to kill kindness.

• Rau-Ru : He did this to me. He created it. He made me believe I was a person with pride and dignity. Now it's destroyed me.

• Rau-Ru : You keep trying to cross the white line. You keep building your hopes for marriage with Monsieur Hamish or Charles - and you'll find your place is with your own people.

• Rau-Ru : This is a new day.

  Hamish Bond : Maybe for you, but not for me.

• Rau-Ru : The abuses one must suffer to gain freedom. But nothing worthwhile is easily bought. The agonies, the torments, the humiliations, all these are the natural elements from which the key is forged. The key that opens the vistas of new worlds and new lives. The key to freedom.