Fences (2016)
Stephen McKinley Henderson: Jim Bono
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Quotes
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Bono : Some people build fences to keep people out, and other people build fences to keep people in.
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Bono : Just moving on through. Searching out the New Land.That's what the old folks used to call it. See a fella moving around from place to place, woman to woman, they call it, Searching out the New Land.
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Troy : [around 12:15 Troy talking about Death] ... and me and him
[Death]
Troy : commenced to wrestling... we wrestled for
[calculating with his fingers]
Troy : ... carry the 6... three days and three nights
Bono : [laughing hysterically]
Rose : [cracking up laughing]
Troy : [still telling story holding bottle of gin in his left hand as Bono and Rose still laughing]
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Bono : Your daddy got a promotion on the rubbish. He gonna be the first colored driver. Ain't got to do nothin' but sit up there and read the paper, like them white fellas.
Lyons : Hey, Pop, if you knew how to read, you'd be all right.
Bono : Nah, nah. You mean if the nigger knew how to drive, he'd be all right.Been fighting with them people about driving and ain't even got a license.
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Bono : I didn't know if I was gonna be in one place long enough to fix on 'em right as their daddy. I figured I was going searching, too.
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Bono : They walk out their front door and take off down one road or another and just keep on walkin'. Just keep on walking till they come to something else. Ain't you never heard of nobody having the walking blues? Now, that's what you call it when you just take off like that.
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[first lines]
Bono : [riding their garbage truck job] Troy, you oughta stop that lyin'.
Troy : I ain't lyin'. The nigger had a watermelon this big. Talkin' about "What watermelon, Mr. Rand?" I liked to fell out... "What watermelon, Mr. Rand?" And it's sittin' there bigger than life.
Bono : What Mr. Rand said?
Troy : He said nuthin'. He figured the nigger too dumb to know he carryin' a watermelon, he wouldn't get no sense out of 'im. Trying to hide that great big watermelon under his coat. Afraid to let the white man see him carry it on.