Dear White People (2014)

Tessa Thompson: Samantha White

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• Professor Bodkin : ...Might I also remind you that I read your entire fifteen-page unsolicited treatise on why the Gremlins is actually about suburban white fear of black culture.

  Sam White : The Gremlins are loud, talk in slang, are addicted to fried chicken and freak out when you get their hair wet.

• Sam White : Dear white people, the minimum requirement of black friends needed to not seem racist has just been raised to two. Sorry, but your weed man, Tyrone, does not count.

• Gabe : [Gabe and Sam are locked in Sam's room arguing]  I'm sorry if I can't be your Nubian Prince on my black horse ready to take you back to fucking Zamunda.

  Sam White : That's not a real African country.

  Gabe : Can I at least get a little credit for a solid 'Coming to America' reference? This isn't you Sam.

  Sam White : No? And who am I?

  Gabe : You're this girl...

  Sam White : Perceptive...

  Gabe : Who likes to argue with me about *every fucking thing.* And I hate it because we both know you're smarter than me. Your favorite director is Bergman. But you tell everyone it's Spike Lee. You love bebop but you've got a thing for Taylor Swift. And I know because my Mac picks up your Mac's library.

  Sam White : I was so careful...

  Gabe : You like to watch me when you think I'm sleeping and trace the outlines of my face. You're more Banksy than Barack. But you've been co-opted as some sort of revolutionary leader or something. But really, you're an anarchist. A shit-starter. A beautiful filmmaker. And beautiful in general.

• Dean Fairbanks : Your show is racist.

  Sam White : Black people can't be racist. Prejudice, yes, but not racist. Racism describes a system of disadvantage based on race. Black people can't be racist since we don't stand to benefit from such a system.

• Gabe : So, Sam, how would you feel if someone started a "Dear Black People"?

  Sam White : No need. Mass media from Fox News to reality TV on VH1 makes it clear what white people think of us.

• Troy Fairbanks : Do you seriously think you can win?

  Sam White : Troy, we live in a world where there's a Big Momma's House *3*. I don't think I have a chance in hell.

• Sam White : You're trying to frighten me, but I think you're the one who's scared.

  President Fletcher : And I think you long for days when blacks were hanging from trees and denied actual rights that way you'd have something to actually fight against.

• Sam White : Dear white people, this just in: Dating a black person to piss off your parents is a form of racism.

• Sam White : Dear white people, please stop touching my hair. Does this look like a petting zoo to you?

• Gabe : I'm trying to be here for you!

  Sam White : Can you be somewhere *else* for me?

• Sam White : So what do you want me to do? Go over and yell at them?

  Lionel Higgins : Have you heard you yelling?

• Sam White : [to Gabe]  You're more Banksy than Barack.