Angry youths only have dung

Rosalee 2022-12-12 23:37:22

I finished watching this long-awaited Bbobby today. I don't want to talk about the plot, but I really like this line in it.

you've got... shit to offer.
You've got no poetry.
You've got no Iight.
You've got no one Iooking at you and saying,''Damn.Look at that MigueI.I want some of what he's got.''
AII you got is your anger.

MigueI is an Indian in the film who does chores in the hotel kitchen. It was his black head chef calmly educating him after his complaints about making whites respect natives and reclaim California land.

When I saw this line, it seemed that every sentence stabbed my fragile little heart. I seem to be the type of person the chef described as unstructured, uninspired, unenviable, and useless but angry. All I got is...shit.

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Bobby quotes

  • John Casey: When you make a move out of stress or anger, it always ends in catastrophe.

  • Edward Robinson: White folks ain't trying to keep you down. White folks just don't like to be pushed into a corner. They'll come around. You just got to make it look like it was their idea, like they're the ones that thought of it. They need to feel like they're the great emancipators. Like it was theirs to give in the first place. Let'em have it. I mean, if that's all it takes, let them have it.