The Best Ossie Davis Quotes

Mother: Hey, you old drunk, what did I tell you about drinking in front of my stoop? Move on; you're blocking my view. You are ugly enough; don't stare at me. The evil eye doesn't work on me.
Da: Mother Sister, you've been talkin' about me for 18 years. What have I ever done to you?
Mother: You a drunk fool.
Da: Besides that? Da Mayor don't bother nobody and nobody no bother da Mayor but you. The Man just tends to his own business. I love everybody. I even love you.
Mother: Hold your tongue, you don't have that much love.
Da: One day you're gonna be nice to me. We may both be dead and buried, but you're gonna be nice - at least civil.

Da: Doctor...
Mookie: C'mon, what. What?
Da: Always do the right thing.
Mookie: That's it?
Da: That's it.
Mookie: I got it, I'm gone.

Da: Listen, listen, listen. Good people, please! Let's all go home. Someone's gonna get hurt. If we don't stop this and stop it now, we gonna do somethin' we gonna regret for the rest of our lives.

Da: Doctor, those that'll tell don't know, and those that know won't tell.

Mother: Good morning.
Da: Is it a good morning?
Mother: Yes, indeed. You almost got yourself killed last night.
Da: I've done that before. Where did you sleep?
Mother: I didn't.
Da: Hope the block is still standing.
Mother: We're still standing.

Judge: [Discussing the spy mission Larry has just reluctantly recruited him for] I'll leave tomorrow, in that 4-wheel drive of mine. North to Wyoming, then due west. I'll be cold. I'll be lonely. My bowels will not work properly. But also... I will be clever.
Larry: [smiles sadly] I bet you will.