We’re rising up because in each and every one of us is this immaculate soul that was given to us by God that is just crying out for dignity and freedom.[to Lydia]
Varley, you do not need to cheapen yourself by selling yourself to me. I know your value.
There are few things that belong to a man in this time of contempt. One of them is the right to keep his own counsel.
The key to being president is not only winning your battles, it’s winning them with dignity.
The day a good woman will have to undergo such indignity is almost past. We will not have to suffer, our children to starve and freeze and die dishonored on cold hills. We will not be hungry forever. We will rise.
Someone stabs you, they attack the body. Someone gropes you, they attack your f***ing soul! Who you are as a man! That’s why it’s different!
People should die with dignity if that’s how they lived.
It’s a miracle what little soap, water, and human decency can do sometimes.
It is hard to be dignified when your feet are six inches from the floor.
I like sneakers. You like sneakers. But like a lot of Black men, we put an excessive amount of value in them, okay. Is it really worth our dignity?[to Darius]
I get you. You don’t want to piss people off. But man-to-man? It’s better to be pissed off than pissed on.[to Ibrahim]
Even if I throw it again, I still wouldn’t be able to win. Just let me lose this thing in style.[to Sae-byeok][나 다시 던져도 너 못 이겨. 아, 그냥 좀 멋있게 좀 지게 해 줘라.]
