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Taraji P. Henson movie quotes

20 quotes from 3 movies
Taraji P. Henson
Belle Bottom

Long time no see, punk! [takes the Zodiac Stone out of Gru's hands] I'll take that!

Belle Bottom

Ooh, baby, the Anti-Villain League can't catch this. Guess who stole the map?

Belle Bottom

You seriously think this puny, little child can be a villain?

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Katherine Johnson

How can you be possibly ogling these white men?

It's equal rights. I have the right to see fine in every color.

[Al Harrison comes out of his office to just as Katherine Johnson gets back from yet another long trip to the colored staff bathroom.]

Where the hell have you been? Everywhere I look you're not where I need you to be, and it's not my imagination. Now, where the hell do you go everyday?

Katherine Johnson

The bathroom, sir.

[With rising anger]

The bathroom. The damn bathroom. For forty minutes a day? What do you do in there? We are T-minus zero here; I put a lot of faith in you.

Katherine Johnson

There's no bathroom for me here.

What do you mean, "there's no bathroom" for you here?

Katherine Johnson

There is no bathroom. There are no colored bathrooms in this building, or any building outside the West Campus, which is half a mile away. Did you know that? I have to walk to Timbuktu just to relieve myself! And I can't use one of the handy bikes. Picture that, Mr. Harrison. My uniform, skirt below the knees and my heels. And simple string of pearls. Well, I don't own pearls. Lord knows you don't pay the colored enough to afford pearls! And I work like a dog day and night, living on coffee from a pot NONE OF YOU WANNA TOUCH! So, excuse me if I have to go to the restroom a few times a day.

[Cut to the NASA team standing out in the hallway; Mr. Harrison knocks the "Colored Ladies Room" sign with a crowbar while the staff watch until the sign is finally down]

There you have it. No more colored restrooms. No more white restrooms. Just plain old toilets. [he throws the crowbar on the floor] Go wherever you damn want, please. Preferably closer to your desk. Here at NASA... We all pee the same color.

Lieutenant Colonel Jim Johnson

They let women handle that sort of... [sees Katherine looking offended] That's not what I mean.

Katherine Johnson

What do you mean?

LTC Jim Johnson

I'm just surprised at something so taxing.

Katherine Johnson

Oh Mr. Johnson, if I were you, I'd quit talking right now.

LTC Jim Johnson

I don't mean no disrespect.

Katherine Johnson

I will have you know, I was the first negro female student at West Virginia University Graduate School. On any given day, I analyze the manometer levels for air displacement, friction and velocity, and compute over ten thousand calculations by cosine, square root and, lately, analytic geometry. By hand. There are twenty bright, highly capable negro women in the West Computing Group, and we're proud to be doing our part for the country. So yes, they let women do some things at NASA, Mr. Johnson. And it's not because we wear skirts. It's because we wear glasses. Have a good day.

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Queenie

Everybody feels different about themselves, one way or another. But we’re all going the same way. Just taking different roads to get there, that’s all.”

Queenie

Poor child, he got the worst of it. Come out white.

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