Tied for 5th most-quoted character in Do the Right Thing (1989): in 3 of its 27 quotes
Radio Raheem's lines
1 quote
Radio Raheem Let me tell you the story of right hand-left hand. It's a tale of good and evil. Hate: it was with this hand that Cain iced his brother. Love: these five fingers, they go straight to the soul of man. The right hand: the hand of love. The story of life is this: static. One hand is always fighting the other hand, and the left hand is kicking much ass. I mean, it looks like the right hand—Love—is finished. But hold on, stop the presses; the right hand is coming back. Yeah, he got the left hand on the ropes now, that's right. Ooh, it's a devastating right and Hate is hurt. He's down. Left-Hand Hate KO-ed by Love.
Scenes with Radio Raheem
2 scenes
Radio Raheem Give me 20 "D" Energizers.
S Sonny
20 "C" Energizers?
Radio Raheem Not "C", "D".
Radio Raheem "D", mother****er, "D". Learn to speak English first, all right?
Radio Raheem 20, mother****er, 20.
Radio Raheem Mother**** you? You, you all right, man.
What'd I tell you about that noise?
Buggin' Out: What'd I tell you about them pictures?
What the ****, are you deaf?
Buggin' Out: No! Are you? **** YOU! We want some black people on that mother**** Wall of Fame now!
We're trying to go **** home! We've been here all **** day, Buggin Out!
Turn that jungle music off! We ain't in Africa!
Buggin' Out: Why it got to be about jungle music? Why it got to be about Africa? It's about them **** pictures!
It's about turning that shit off and getting the **** out of my place!
Radio Raheem **** you!
Radio Raheem This is music. My music!
Radio Raheem Well, turn it off, then.
V Vito
Hey, man, get the **** out of here! We're **** closed!
Buggin' Out: **** you! We're closing you guinea bastards for good! For good, mother****er! Until you get some black people on that mother**** Wall of Fame!
You're gonna **** close me?
[Sal grabs his bat] Buggin' Out: You're goddamn right!
YOU BLACK ****!! I'LL **** TEAR YOUR **** **** ASS!
P Punchy
[Everbody in the pizzeria starts shouting at once at Sal's insult] [Over all the shouting]
Oh, we're **** now?! We **** now!
Buggin' Out: YOU **** WHITE TRASH! I'LL **** YOU UP!
Sal, put the **** bat down!
Buggin' Out: COME ON, MAN, YOU **** GUINEA TRASH!
YOU BLACK ****!! YOU **** MOTHER****ER!
[Sal explodes in rage and smashes Radio Raheem's boombox several times with his bat]
Other characters in Do the Right Thing
More Bill Nunn characters
