Boyz n the Hood (1991)

Cuba Gooding Jr.: Tre Styles

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Quotes 

• [Tre answers the phone] 

  Tre Styles : Who dis?

  Reva Deveraux : Who dis? What kind of way is that to answer the phone? Have you given anymore thought to what we talked about?

  Tre Styles : Yeah... I don't know yet.

  Reva Deveraux : Let me speak to yo daddy.

  Tre Styles : POP! Telephone.

  Furious Styles : Who dis?

• [last lines] 

  Tre Styles : Hey, Dough!

  Doughboy : W'sup?

  Tre Styles : You still got one brother left, man.

  Doughboy : Thanks, man... Later, G.

  Tre Styles : Later.

• Doughboy : Yo, cuz, I know why you got outta the car last night... shouldn't have been there in the first place. You don't want that shit to come back to haunt you. I ain't been up this early in a long time. I turned on the TV this morning, they had this shit on about... about living in a violent world. Showed all these foreign places... I started thinking, man, either they don't know, don't show, or don't care about what's going on in the hood. Man, all this foreign shit, and they didn't have shit on my brother, man.

  [sniffles] 

  Doughboy : I ain't got no brother. Got no mother, either. She loved that fool more than she loved me.

  Sheryl : [running up to the porch]  Doughboy! You got some blow? Got some rock?

  Doughboy : Yo, get the fuck out my face! Keep them goddamn babies out the street!

  Tre Styles : [Sheryl leaves]  Did y'all get 'em?

  Doughboy : [wipes his eyes and looks at Tre. Tre shakes his head]  I'ont even know how I feel about it, neither, man. It just goes on and on, you know. Next thing you know, somebody might try and smoke me. Don't matter, doe. We all gotta go sometime, huh?

• Tre Styles : I didn't do nothing.

  Officer Coffey : You think you tough?

  [pulls gun on Tre] 

  Officer Coffey : Scared now, ain't you? I like that. That's why I took this job. I hate little motherfuckers like you. Little niggers, you ain't shit! I could blow your head off with this Smith & Wesson and you couldn't do shit. Think you tough? What set you from? Look like one of them Crenshaw mafia motherfuckers.

• Tre Styles : [knocking on Sheryl's door]  Sheryl! Come on!

  [Sheryl enters] 

  Tre Styles : Keep your baby off the street. She gonna get hit one of these days.

  Sheryl : You got some blow? You got some rock? I'll suck your dick.

  Tre Styles : Just keep the baby off the streets! And change her diapers! They almost smell as bad as you.

• Furious Styles : What'd you use?

  Tre Styles : I used the number she gave me... Why you sweating me? I didn't have to use nothing. She said she was on the pill.

  Furious Styles : How many times do I have I told you, if a girl says she's on the pill, you use somethin anyway. Pill ain't goin' to keep your dick from falling off. I don't know why you insist on learning things the hard way, but you gon' learn. Oh yeah, you gon' learn. Pick up that hair.

• Ricky : [scratching lotto ticket]  Damn, nothin'.

  Tre Styles : What?

  Ricky : Nothin'. I said I didn't win nothin'.

  Tre Styles : You gotta be Mexican to win that shit.

• Tre Styles : I get a discount on clothes, and shit. You like?

  Doughboy : Nigga, you look like you selling rocks!

  Chris : Yo, Tre' you be slinging that shit?

  Tre Styles : No, I don't sell that shit!

  Doughboy : You couldn't anyway! Pops will kick yo' ass! You know I'm out the pen. I'm gon' keep my ass out this time.

  Tre Styles : That's what we're here to celebrate, right? Damn, brother how did you get so big?

  Doughboy : Pumping iron, and eating. Ain't nothing else to do in the motherfucking pen. Three hots, and a cot, know what I'm saying? I was also reading, and writing my girl.

  Monster : You read?

  Doughboy : Yeah nigga, I ain't no criminal! I can read, bitch!

• Tre Styles : [laughing after he breaks down in tears]  I never thought I'd be crying in front of a female.

  Brandi : You can cry in front of me.

• [after all the men shove their way past the women to get to the food first] 

  Tre Styles : Hey, hey! Why don't you all act like gentlemen and let these ladies eat first.

  [He motions to Doughboy for assistance] 

  Doughboy : Yeah. Y'all act like you ain't never had no barbecue before. The ladies eat. Ho's gotta eat too.

  Shalika : Wait a minute, niggah, who you callin' a ho? I ain't no ho!

  Doughboy : Oh, I'm sorry bitch.

  Mrs. Baker : [She smacks Doughboy]  Hey, hey! Watch your mouth.

  Doughboy : I'm just playin'!

• Tre Styles : Man, what the fuck is wrong with you?

  Ricky : What?

  Tre Styles : You're slamming my door like some kind of gorilla on a football field!

  Ricky : Damn, nigga! What's wrong with you?

  Tre Styles : Nothing.

• Ricky : Man, just fuck all that shit, right. I'm going in the fuckin' Army.

  Tre Styles : You're going to do what? Man, what are you, a damn fool?

  Ricky : Listen, man, as for working with computers and stuff; plus, they can give money for college.

  Tre Styles : Listen, you, you sound like the damn commercial. Man, they don't tell, is that you don't belong to you no more. You belong to them! The Government! Like a slave or something.

• Furious Styles : Would you two knuckleheads come on. I want you all to take a look at that sign up there. See what it says: cash for your home. Do you know what that is?

  Ricky : A billboard.

  Tre Styles : A billboard.

  Furious Styles : What are you all? Amos and Andy? Are you Stepin and he's Fetchit? I'm talking about he message. What it stands for. It's called gentrification. It's what happens when the property value of a certain area is brought down. You listening? You bring the property value down. They can buy the land at a lower price, then they move all the people out, raise the property value and sell it at a profit. Now, what we need to do is keep everything in our neighborhood, everything - black. Black owned with black money. Just like the Jews, the Italians, the Mexicans and the Koreans do.

• Doughboy : I heard you like Mr. GQ Smooth now. You working over at the Fox Hills Mall?

  Tre Styles : Yeah, I get discounts on clothes. You like?

  Doughboy : You look like you sellin' rocks.

• Ricky : Damn, man. You know, Furious is deep. Did he used to be a preacher or somethin'?

  Tre Styles : Nah, he never been no preacher. He just reads a lot.

• Tre Styles : What? Wha-what are you doing man?

  Ricky : I got to drain the weasel, man!

• Tre Styles : Hey, Dough.

  Doughboy : Was'up?

  Tre Styles : You still got one brother left, man.

  Doughboy : Thanks, man.

• Tre Styles : I get a discount on clothes, and shit. You like?

  Doughboy : Nigga, you look like you selling rocks!

  Chris : Yo, Tre' you be slinging that shit?

  Tre Styles : No, I don't sell that shit!

  Doughboy : You couldn't anyway! Pops will kick yo' ass! You know I'm out the pen. I'm gon' keep my ass out this time.

  Tre Styles : That's what we're here to celebrate, right? Damn, brother how did you get so big?

  Doughboy : Pumping iron, and eating. Ain't nothing else to do in the motherfucking pen. Three hots, and a cot, know what I'm saying? I was also reading, and writing my girl.

  Monster : You read?

  Doughboy : Yeah nigga, I ain't no criminal! I can read, bitch!