The Sunset Limited (2011 TV Movie)

Samuel L. Jackson: Black

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Quotes 

• Black : I ain't a doubter, but I am a questioner.

  White : What's the difference?

  Black : A questioner wants the truth. A doubter wants to be told there ain't no such thing.

• 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.

• 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?

• 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.

• [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?

• Black : The sun don't shine up the same dog's ass every day, you understand what I'm saying?

  White : If what you're saying is that I'm simply having a bad day, that's ridiculous.

  Black : I ain't saying you're having a bad day, Professor, I'm saying you're having a bad life.

• 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.

• [first lines] 

  Black : So what am I supposed to do with you, Professor?

  White : Why are you supposed to do anything?

• 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.

• 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?

• Black : I'm gonna take it the good way, 'cuz that's my nature. That way I get to live in my world, not yours.

  White : And what makes you think mine is so bad?

  Black : I don't think it's so bad, I just no it's brief.

• White : Jesus drank wine, He and His disciples...

  Black : Yeah, He did. Says so right here in the Bible. Of course it don't say nuthin' about Him hiding it in the toilet.

• White : Was he killed?

  Black : I hope so, we buried him.

• 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.