Buggin' Out: Yo, Mookie.
Mookie What?
Buggin' Out: Stay black.
Played by Spike Lee 
Do the Right Thing (1989) · 27 quotes
Do the Right Thing (1989) · 27 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Do the Right Thing (1989): in 7 of its 27 quotes
Most scenes with: Pino (4)
Scenes with Mookie
7 scenes Mookie Buggin' Out: You the man.
Mookie No, you the man.
Buggin' Out: You the man.
Mookie No, you the man.
Buggin' Out: No, I'm just a struggling black man trying to keep my dick hard in a cruel and harsh world.
Mookie Pino, **** you, **** your **** pizza, and **** Frank Sinatra.
Yeah? Well, **** you, too, and **** Michael Jackson.
Doctor.
Mookie C'mon, what? What?
Always do the right thing.
Mookie That's it?
That's it.
Mookie I got it. I'm gone.
Mookie Pino, who's your favorite basketball player?
Magic Johnson.
Mookie And who's your favorite movie star?
Eddie Murphy.
Mookie And who's your favorite rock star?
Mookie [Pino doesn't respond]
Prince. You're a Prince freak.
Boss. Bruce.
Mookie Prince.
Bruce!
Mookie Pino, all you ever talk about is **** this and **** that, and all your favorite people are so-called ****.
It's different. Magic, Eddie, Prince... are not ****. I mean, they're not black, I mean - Let me explain myself. They're - They're not really black. I mean, they're black, but they're not really black. They're more than black. It's different.
Mookie It's different?
Yeah. To me, it's different.
Mookie You dago, wop, guinea, garlic breath, pizza slinging, spaghetti bending, Vic Damone, Perry Como, Luciano Pavarotti, Sole Mio, non-singing mother****er.
You gold teeth, gold chain wearing, fried chicken and biscuit eating, monkey, ape, baboon, big thigh, fast running, high jumping, spear chucking, three-hundred-sixty-degree basketball dunking, titsun, spade, mulignan. Take your **** pizza piece and go the **** back to Africa.
Stevie
You little slanty eyed, me-no-speaky-American, own-every-fruit-and-vegetable-stand-in-New-York, bullshit, Reverend Sun Myung Moon, Summer Olympic '88, Korean kickboxing son-of-a-bitch.
Officer Long
You Goya bean eating, fifteen-in-a-car, thirty-in-an-apartment, pointed shoes, red wearing, Menudo, mira-mira Puerto Rican ****. Yeah, you!
Sonny
It's cheap! I got a good price for you, Mayor Koch, "How-I'm-doing?", chocolate egg cream drinking, bagel and lox, B'nai B'rith, Jew asshole.
Yo! Hold up! Time out! Time out! Y'all take a chill! Ya need to cool that shit out! And that's the double truth, Ruth!
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!
Mookie 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!
AND **** YOU TOO!
Get in there, Pino!
This is music. My music!
**** YOUR MUSIC!
Well, turn it off, then.
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!
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!
Mookie 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]
