Ice Cube credited as playing...
Calvin
- Calvin: A little nervous. I haven't felt like this since I met my wife's pops.
- [laughter]
- Calvin: My name is Calvin Palmer. I own Calvin's Barbershop over on 79th. Been there since 1958. And all I'd like to say is that all change isn't bad. Who can argue with progress? Better schools, cleaner streets... something we need on the South Side. And I want the best for my son just like my parents wanted the best for me. So some change on 79th is well-needed and well-deserved. Oh, yeah. Also, I'm happy that people outside our community are starting to find the value in our neighborhoods. But... if that means selling our soul just to make a quick buck, I ain't with that shit. It's not worth it. That's why I'm not sellin' out...
- [looks at Lalowe Brown]
- Calvin: ... like some people I know.
- [to city council president]
- Calvin: Sir, do you know why Jesus wept?
- City Council President: No. No, I don't.
- Calvin: Well, when Lazarus died, Martha and Mary, they cried over his body. When Jesus saw their pain, he couldn't help but cry, too. So that's why Jesus wept. That's how I feel when I look at people like Hank Tolliver and Gertrude Rose and Miss Emma bein' driven out... 'cause they don't fit the plan of the new developers. We gotta realize that people make this community, not $5 coffees and $20 mugs. It's the people. And once you lose the people, you lose the neighborhood. So if I had to say, I would deny Quality Land Development's proposal to tear up 79th because it just ain't worth it. Thank you.
- Calvin: [to his calm baby son] One day this shop's gonna be yours.
- [his baby son starts to cry loudly]