Posse (1993)

Mario Van Peebles: Jesse

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• Father Time : The Red Man ain't got no problem with the Black Man. As for you, White Boy, that's a whole different story. I mean, first you enslave the Black Man, exploit the Yellow Man, and then you kill off the Red Man so you can snatch up his land for railroads and such. Can I get a witness?

  Obobo : Amen!

  Jimmy J. 'Little J' Teeters : Well if I may approach the bench, your Honor. First, I ain't ever personally enslaved nobody. So, Time, you can kiss my White ass. Second of all, if there was a train coming through on these tracks right now, I'd be on it and you'd be on it, except the only difference would be, I'd be gambling on it and you'd be fetching my chips like a little houseboy, because you can't even cheat right. Now, can I get a witness? Thank you.

  Obobo : Amen!

  Father Time : Jesse, can I kill the cracker, now?

  Jesse : Why don't you let the Indians get him.

• Jesse : What about you, Mr. Well-Dressed? Now, why do you wanna ride with a band of outlaws?

  Father Time : Let's kist say I got a good feeling about you boys and I always plays my hunches.

  Jesse : Yeah, well, everything's got its price.

  Father Time : Hell, a man's gotta give the devil his due.

• Jesse : Y'all wanna ride with me, that's okay. Don't ask no questions that need answering. And don't get in my way.

• Jesse : If you're going to shoot. Shoot. Save the bluffing for the card game, gambler.

• Carver : You're running from the law?

  Jesse : Well, it depends on whose law you're talking about. The law they got for them - or the law they got for us?

  Carver : You know, you still ain't changed, boy; but the world has. Ain't that black and white no more, Jessie. Soon, the west is going to be settled. Ain't gonna be no more new frontier or frontiersmen. It's gonna be about business, my friend, and businessmen.

• Jesse : I tell you what. Let's be two old friends having a drink. See? No past, no future. Just this drink, right here, right now.

  Carver : Here's to here and now.

• Lana : Jessie, you never wrote. I thought you was dead.

  Jesse : So did I.

• Lana : Good Book says turn the other cheek. Your daddy was a preacher. You should know that.

  Jesse : Ain't the Good Book or any other book I got problems with. It's how folks interpret it. As far as I can see, Good Book got a lot of good colored people on their knees praying for pie in the sky.

• Jesse : Lana, you don't want me to touch you, I won't touch you.

  Lana : Well, I don't, so don't.

• Papa Joe : Getting a little sloppy, ain't ya, Jessie. Don't you remember nothin' I taught ya?

  Jesse : I'm gonna use all of it, old man.

• Jesse : I've been fighting over what's dead for a long time. I think it maybe it's time I start fighting for what's still alive.

• Jesse : I'm gonna leave. Y'all think you can sit safe. You think that iron railroad's gonna take a nice little turn - and miss this here town. I seen my daddy's dream come true. I'm done. But I'm gonna guarantee you something. The next time I come back to this town, ain't gonna be one black face up in here unless he's polishing shoes at Bates's railroad station.