Da Mayor quotes from Do the Right Thing (1989)

View Quote Doctor, those that'll tell don't know, and those that know won't tell.

View Quote If we don't stop this and stop it now, we gonna do something we're gonna regret for the rest of our lives. Sal and his boys had nothing to do with what the cops did....Leave him alone.

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

View Quote Mother-Sister: 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 Mayor: Mother-Sister, you've been talking about me for 18 years. What have I ever done to you?
Mother-Sister: You a drunk fool.
Da Mayor: Besides that. Da Mayor don't bother nobody and nobody bother Da Mayor but you. The man just tends to his own business. I love everybody. I even love you.
Mother-Sister: Hold your tongue. You don't have that much love.
Da Mayor: 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.

View Quote Da Mayor: Unless you done stood in the door, listened to your five hungry children crying for bread, and you can't do a damn thing about it. Your woman standing there, you can't even look her in the eye. Unless you done that, you don't know me, my pain, my hurt, my feelings. You don't know shit!...Don't call me bum. Don't call me a drunk. You all ain't got the sense that God give a billy goat! Don't call me nothin'. It's disrespectful. I know your mamas and your papas raised you better."
Ahmad: Yo, man, I hope you finished your little soliloquy, man. 'Cause first of all, I've been peein' straight for years, understand what I'm saying? And you're right, I wouldn't stand in the doorway and listen to my five children go hungry. I'd be out getting a job, doing somethin', anything to put food in their mouth. And you're right. I don't want to know your pain. I don't care to know your pain. You're the one who put yourself in this situation, man. Every day, every day, I see you walk up and down this block, inebriated. Never sober! But that's what DA stands for, Da Mayor, Drunk Ass. He don't get no respect here. You'll never get respect here, boy. How you gonna tell me how my parents raised me? I respect those who respect themselves.

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