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Richard Gere in The Cotton Club (1984)

Lonette McKee: Lila Rose Oliver

The Cotton Club

Lonette McKee credited as playing...

Lila Rose Oliver

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Quotes8

  • Lila Rose Oliver: I'm not black. I'm not white. I'm a human being. And that's the way I like it.
  • Lila Rose Oliver: I have too many things I need to do. I want to make it. I mean, really make it. I want to do Broadway.
  • Sandman Williams: You want to do white show business.
  • Lila Rose Oliver: Well, isn't that what it is?
  • Lila Rose Oliver: [singing] Keeps raining all the time, Life is bad, Gloom and misery everywhere, Stormy weather, Just can't get my poor self together, I'm weary all of the time, The time, so weary all of the time...
  • Lila Rose Oliver: [singing] Blow, ill wind, blow away, Let me rest today, You're blowin' me no good, no good...
  • Hotel Clerk: What color are you?
  • Lila Rose Oliver: My father is colored and my mother's white. So, what color does that make me, sir?
  • Sandman Williams: You got people thinkin' you're white.
  • Lila Rose Oliver: When I want. Remember, I told you about my private life and a lawyer.
  • Sandman Williams: Why do you do it?
  • Lila Rose Oliver: Because I can.
  • Sandman Williams: So what?
  • Lila Rose Oliver: So stop judging me about it!
  • Lila Rose Oliver: Oh Dalbert, just make love to me.
  • Lila Rose Oliver: This is for your fantasy!

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