Adult Chris Quote #290
Quote from Adult Chris in Everybody Hates Bed-Stuy
Adult Chris: [v.o.] At the end of the school year, I was going to graduate from Corleone Junior High. My eighth grade picture had a list of everything I'd accomplished, which so far, was nothing. This was my last chance to make sure that didn't happen again.
Greg: Why aren't you filling out your yearbook activities form?
Chris: Because right now, the only thing I have to put under my picture is "human punching bag."
Greg: How about "First Black kid at Corleone"?
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Actually, I wasn't the first Black kid at Corleone...
[flashback to 1968: As a smiling Black student gets off the school bus, he is shot]
Adult Chris: [v.o.] I was just the first one that made it into the building.
Everybody Hates Chris Quotes
‘Everybody Hates Bed-Stuy’ Quotes
Quote from Ms. Morello
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Lisa hated my story, so I showed it to Ms. Morello, who loved anything Black.
Ms. Morello: Lisa's right, this isn't good.
Chris: What's wrong with it?
Ms. Morello: Chris, there's nothing worse than racial stereotypes. We've seen this a thousand times. The tall, shirtless Black man, his ebony pecs glistening with sweat from working in the fields. His furrowed brow filled with savage lust. Where was I?
Chris: I think you were talking about racial stereotypes.
Ms. Morello: Oh, right. I want to read about the real Black men who walk the gritty streets of the hood. People like Super Fly, the Mack, Black Belt Jones, Truck Turner and Blacula. Tell me the truth about the pimps and the hustlers, the violence... all set to a jazzy beat!
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Oh, there's a jazzy beat I want to give her, right upside the head.
Quote from Jerome
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Walking home, I couldn't help thinking that my street was usually filled with life, and now it was an empty wasteland, all because of me. I felt worse than food poisoning.
Jerome: [hushed] Little dude from across the street... come here, man. Man, what you doing out there?
Don't you know there's a killer on the streets?
Chris: Nah, I'll be all right.
Jerome: Let me hold a dollar. [takes a dollar] Be safe out here.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Did I just get mugged from a window?
Quote from Greg
Greg: It's not too late. You can still get involved in an activity.
Chris: Like what?
Greg: I don't know. Something that plays into your strong suits.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Problem was, all I had were weak suits.
Greg: Choir.
Chris: I can't sing.
Greg: Glee Club.
Chris: I can't sing.
Greg: The debate team. You can talk, can't you?