Bamboozled Quotes
2000 films, 2000s American films, Films directed by Spike Lee, United States National Film Registry films
Top Quotes
“Gano Grills as "Double Blak"”
“Feed the idiot box. Feed the idiot box.”
“Canibus as "Mo Blak"”
“Wikipedia: Bamboozled”
“MC Serch as "One-Sixteenth Blak"”
“Paul Mooney as Junebug”
“Savion Glover as Manray/"Mantan"”
“The Roots as The Alabama Porch Monkeys”
“Charlie Baltimore as "Smooth Blak"”
“Mos Def as Julius Hopkins/"Big Blak Afrika"”
“Michael Rapaport as Thomas Dunwitty”
“Tommy Davidson as Womack/"Sleep 'n Eat"”
“Jada Pinkett Smith as Sloan Hopkins”
“Thomas Jefferson Byrd as "Honeycutt"”
“Damon Wayans as Pierre Delacroix/Peerless Dothan”
“A: I had more trouble getting this film picked up by a studio than any other film. But that's expected given the content.”
“The mission was accomplished. All of these people left the room thinking they would have real input. I was writing this pilot alone. Myself. Me. Moi.”
“As I bled to death, as my very life oozed out of me, all I could think of was something the great Negro James Baldwin had written. "People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead."”
“Q: How did the actors feel about blackening up?
A: They absolutely, absolutely dreaded it. There's no question that they felt it was dehumanizing. Some of the cast and crew weren't familiar with blackface, actually. They didn't know what to feel and I could tell that they were just dumbfounded.”
“Q: So who is the movie supposed to speak to? To black audiences or white audiences? Or do you think that it has a message for everybody?
A: No question about it, it's for everyone to watch. I know that it's painful at times, but we're not making this up. The depths of degradation in cartoons, movies, and television shows, the misrepresentation of a people - it's an American legacy. Not just in television or movies, but in all media.”