Do the Right Thing (1989)

John Savage: Clifton

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• Buggin' Out : You almost knocked me down, man. The word is "excuse me."

  Clifton : Ah, excuse me, I'm sorry.

  Buggin' Out : Not only did ya knock me down, you stepped on my brand-new white Air Jordans I just bought, and that's all you can say is "excuse me"?

  Clifton : What, are you serious?

  Buggin' Out : Yeah, I'm serious, I'll fuck you up quick two times.

  Ahmad : Two times.

  Buggin' Out : Who told you to step on my sneakers, who told you to walk on my side of the block, who told you to be in my neighborhood?

  Clifton : I own this brownstone.

  Buggin' Out : Who told you to buy a brownstone on my block, in my neighborhood, on my side of the street? Yo, what you wanna live in a Black neighborhood for, anyway? Man, motherfuck gentrification.

• Buggin' Out : Why don't you go back to Massachusetts?

  Clifton : I was born in Brooklyn!