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Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple (1985)

Adolph Caesar: Old Mister Johnson

The Color Purple

Adolph Caesar credited as playing...

Old Mister Johnson

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  • Old Mr.: Celie, you has my sympathy. Ain't many women allow they husband's ho to lay up in they house.
  • Old Mr.: Boy, you goin' let this ol' nappy-headed girl cuss you out like that? You sittin' at the head of your own dinner table and actin' like the waiter!
  • Old Mr.: What is it with this Shug Avery? She black as tar, nappy-headed. She got Iegs like baseball bats.
  • Old Mr.: [Sofia begins to laugh after years of near silence]
  • Old Mr.: My God, the dead has arisen.
  • Old Mr.: You can't talk to my boy that way.
  • Celie: Your boy. If he hadn't been your boy, he might have been a halfway decent man.
  • Old Mr.: Get yourself a young girl. You heed your Daddy's advice. Get these chickens back in the coop, before they Iay eggs all over the place.
  • Old Mr.: Shug Avery done set the population of Hartwell County a new high. You just one of the roosters, boy.
  • Old Mr.: She's no more than a jook-joint Jezebel. Why, she ain't even clean. And I hear she's got that nasty women's disease.

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