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Gene Anthony Ray: Leroy

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Gene Anthony Ray credited as playing...

Leroy

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Quotes7

  • Leroy Johnson: I's young, I's single, and I loves to mingle!
  • Mrs. Sherwood: Speak English.
  • Leroy Johnson: I speak like I likes.
  • Mrs. Sherwood: This is my home room. You'll speak as I like. I teach English. Now, if that's a foreign language, you're going to learn it.
  • Mrs. Sherwood: This is no Mickey Mouse school. You're not getting off easy. Because you're talented, you'll work twice as hard. Now, I don't care how well you dance or how many colored tutus you have. If you don't give your academic subjects equal time, you're out.
  • Leroy Johnson: Bull sh*t!
  • Leroy Johnson: I told you I done it and I forgot it.
  • Mrs. Sherwood: My hearing is fine. Its your homework that's missing. And these couple of pages I have are unintelligible.
  • Leroy Johnson: Its a secret language, all right? It ain't meant for whiteys to understand!
  • Mrs. Sherwood: What about your book report?
  • Leroy Johnson: I done it!
  • Mrs. Sherwood: You did it.
  • Leroy Johnson: Yeah, one thousand words and I counted 'em too.
  • Mrs. Sherwood: "The Best of Playboy" is not a book report.
  • Leroy Johnson: Where I come from, it don't pay to read and speak white!
  • Mrs. Sherwood: Read
  • Leroy Johnson: No
  • Mrs. Sherwood: Read!
  • Leroy Johnson: No!
  • Mrs. Sherwood: Read!
  • Leroy Johnson: No you fucking bitch! What the fuck you want me to do, asking me to read all the fucking time. I hate your guys. You read, you fucking bitch.

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