The Emperor Jones (1933)

Fredi Washington: Undine

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• Undine : How do you like the city, big boy?

  Brutus Jones : I like it fine, now.

  Undine : Comin' back soon?

  Brutus Jones : Soon as the train'll bring me.

  Undine : I'll be here.

• Brutus Jones : You ain't heard the good news yet. I been transferred to the President's private car.

  Undine : Aw, that ain't nothin'. Why, Jeff say you don't make no tips on that job. That's why he didn't take it.

  Brutus Jones : There you are. That's the difference 'tween me and Jeff. He can't see no bigger than two bits. Me? Why, I'd just be steppin' to my own class on that private car.

• Undine : Come clean, big boy. Where'd you get that money, in a crap game?

  Brutus Jones : Go ahead, laugh some more. You done laughed yourself right off of my payroll.

  Undine : Oh, honey, sweetheart, I didn't mean it. I was only kiddin'.

  Brutus Jones : No, you's too funny to live with. Any woman is baggage what gets heavier and heavier, the longer you totes 'em. You got to change 'em to keep travelin' light. Here's $40. And good-bye!

• Undine : You ain't the first man that's gone down-and-out thinkin' everybody else was a fool. I got eyes, even if Jeff ain't. And you can tell that polecat Belle La Due if she wants to keep on tryin' to look like Garbo, she'd better stay out of my way.