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Malcolm X
- Jim Brown: [regarding the ice cream in the motel room] Well, what flavor is it?
- Malcolm X: Well, we have vanilla, Jimmy...
- [pulls a second carton out of the freezer]
- Malcolm X: ...and vanilla.
- Jim Brown: Shit.
- Sam Cooke: How's that for irony?
- Malcolm X: Last time I checked, Brother Sam, vanilla was your flavor of choice.
- Malcolm X: What kind of message are you sending, though, by doing one show for white folks and a completely different show for black folks, Sam?
- Sam Cooke: [laughing in contempt] Ha.
- Malcolm X: No, listen to me, you're performing in places where the only black people not on stage are the ones serving the food.
- Sam Cooke: Don't you think I know that? I can't tell you how many times I wanted to reach out and punch somebody.
- Malcolm X: Then, then, then, then strike with the weapon that you have, man: your voice! Black people, we, we standing up! We, we speaking out!
- Sam Cooke: Umm hm.
- Malcolm X: Sam, you have possibly one of the most effective, beautiful outlets of us all. You're not using it to help the cause, brother
- Sam Cooke: The hell I'm not! I got the masters to my songs. I started a label, I'm producing tons of black artists. Don't you think my determining my own creative and business destiny is every bit as inspiring to people as you standing up on a podium trying to piss 'em off?
- Malcolm X: [Quoting Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind"] 'How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?'
- Sam Cooke: But you still obey them, so when they tell you to come out here to recruit Cassius to become a member of some...
- Malcolm X: I didn't make Cassius do anything! He came to me for insight, he had questions. His passion for Islam come from a pure...
- Cassius Clay: Passion... is kind of a strong word.