Hill Harper: Xavier

Get on the Bus

Xavier

Xavier: Why are you even going to the march?
Wendell: Niggas and cars, cars and niggas. Niggas need cars like cars need niggas. I gotta make me some money. You think I'm gonna miss out on all that networking, shit nigga you must be crazy. I got a joke for ya, nigga: What do you get when you cross a million lesbians and the million man march?
Jay: Ok, what do you get when you cross one million lesbians and the million man march?
Wendell: Two million mother-fuckers who don't do dick.
[laughs]
Wendell: You niggas somethin' else.
[Pointing at everybody]
Wendell: Nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga, all you niggas!
Mike: Hey Wendell, I got a joke for you: What do they call a black man with a Lexus dealership?
Wendell: What?
Mike: Nigga.
[Wendell is thrown off the bus with his coat following]
Jay: Nigga need Coat like Coat need Nigga!

George: You got any kids?
Xavier: No, man.
George: Keep Jimmy in his pants. Keep him locked up tight. Finish school, you know. Get a career. Get married. Then, start having those babies.
Xavier: I got my priorities straight. You ain't got to worry about me.

Randall: [after Kyle changes seat] I do mind that you're not man enough to admit you don't love me!
Junior, aka 'Smooth': [bus Passengers sarcastic reaction] Cool, Dad. We're goin' to the Million Man March with a bunch of homos.
Khalid: Sissy.
Flip: Tell me I just didn't hear what I think I heard.
Xavier: What?
Flip: He said, "You're not man enough to admit that you love me" to him.
Xavier: So?
Flip: So? There are faggots on the bus!
Xavier: Gays don't have a role in the black community?
Flip: I'm not talking about the black community, I'm talking about the faggots we got on the bus!
Xavier: How else are they supposed to get to the March?
Mike: Skip.

Xavier: You're on a bus - with 20 black men, how do you feel?
Rick: Black men. White men. All the same to me. I like to think of myself as color blind.
Xavier: Color blind. Okay, so you didn't notice, at all, that everyone on this bus is black except you. Men of African ancestry, so-called black men, decedents of slaves.
Rick: Well, we're all brothers under the skin, right?
Randall: Now we're brothers, just because you're on a black bus.
Rick: Hey, look, I never wore a white sheet over my head, okay. I'm Jewish.
Randall: God forbid we should think a Jewish person could be a bigot.
Xavier: My parents were in the civil rights movement. They had black people at our house all the time.
Randall: Are you getting this, Xavier? They actually had black people at their house.

George: You gonna be one of them Hollywood hot shots.
Xavier: I just might surprise you.
George: Yeah, well, that'll be a nice one. Cause Hollywood thinks they got us all figured out - in the evening news.
Xavier: Yeah, as long as they sum us up in the Four Rs: Rape, Rape, Rob, and Riot.

Wendell: You brothers know what I'm sayin' about niggers like Jackson. They all say the same thing: hire us, feed us, affirmative action. Like we need America to keep a nipple in our mouth.
Xavier: You a Republican or something?
Wendell: Yeah and damn proud of it.
Mike: Who you Nigger Gingrich?
Xavier: You got a problem with that?
Evan Thomas Sr.: I don't see how any black man could be a Republican.
Wendell: I don't see how any black man can't.