Thelma: Don't worry, daddy. I've got eyes like an eagle.

J.J.: And a face like a beagle.

Florida: Did you here yourself James, you said "ain't" 3 times in a row.

James: So.

Florida: "Ain't" is not a word.

James: OH yeah... its in the dictionary.

Florida: No "aint" ain't, but isn't is... look it up.

James: I cant.

Florida: Why?

James: "AINT" got no dictionary.

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Thelma:

JJ:

Larry : Someday, I plan to own my own gas station.
Florida : When is "someday", Larry?
Larry : In about 10 years, ma'am.
J.J. : There won't be no gas left by then.

JJ & James:

James : [to Thelma and Michael] If I do have hypertension, y'all gave it to me wit' all that nickin' and naggin' goin' on. Junior here's the only one who haven't got on my nerves.
J.J. : That's because, one, I respect you, and two, I fear for my life.

Thelma & JJ:

Thelma : Don't worry, daddy. I've got eyes like an eagle.
J.J. : And a face like a beagle.

James:

Larry : Someday, I plan to own my own gas station.

Florida : When is "someday", Larry?

Larry : In about 10 years, ma'am.

J.J. : There won't be no gas left by then.

Police Officer:’We want crime in Chocolate City, as it is in the vanilla suburbs’.
J.J.: ‘Yeah but the vanilla suburbs come with two scoops, whipped cream and a cherry’, ‘all we get around here is sprinkled nuts’!

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Thelma:

Willona: Just came by to see if you heard the news?

James: Yeah, we heard the news, Willona. Now go home!

Michael:
[as the TV is being taken away] Goodbye John-Boy.

Thelma:

J.J.:
[J.J. phones home after a police raid on his "friend's" apartment] Ma? I'm ready to come home.

Florida:
It's your home.

Florida: "Is a bean green?"
J.J.: "Can James Brown get down?"
Thelma: "Is yo head dead?"

Willona: Just came by to see if you heard the news?

James: Yeah, we heard the news, Willona. Now go home!

This is one of my favs!

Florida: "Is a bean green?"
J.J.: "Can James Brown get down?"
Thelma: "Is yo head dead?"

This is one of Thelma’s few LOL lines!

James: "How you gonna know where I'm at, if you ain't been where I've been; understand where I'm coming from?"

After James falls asleep on another woman's shoulders at the police station

FLORIDA: James?!

WOMAN: YOU BETTA ANSWER HER BECAUSE I SURE AIN'T JAMES! a woman ain't safe nowhere- you even getting molested in a police station!

James: We are poor, and poor is one of three things people don't want to be. Right next to sick, and dead.