Smoke
[after shooting a looter and seeing the other trying to escape]
**** you goin', ****?! Bet this bullet'll beat you there!
Played by Michael B. Jordan 
Sinners (2025) · 48 quotes
Sinners (2025) · 48 quotes
I been all over this world. In cars. Ships. Trains. I seen men die in ways I didn't even know was possible. But I ain't never saw no roots, no demons… no ghosts, no magic. Just power. And only money can get you that.
More lines from Smoke
3 quotes Smoke
Smoke
Listen here, this ain't no house party.
Smoke
The best part of me was him.
Scenes with Smoke
12 scenes
Sammie Moore
They said you wanna talk.
Smoke
Yeah. Seen your performance down there. Pretty damn good.
Sammie Moore
Can't thank you enough for this. I mean, y'all the ones who put that guitar in my hand. Now this.
Smoke
Well, you got the talent. That's for certain. But all this ain't no life for nobody. I know plenty of musicians I ain't never met a happy one. Yeah, it's cute now. But it get old. That ramblin'.
Sammie Moore
I mean being with y'all today... Smoke, I feel like I'm flying. Well, today settled it. I'm headin' off on my own.
Smoke
Where you goin'?
Sammie Moore
I don't know. Maybe Chicago.
Smoke
Hmm. One day our daddy beat Stack real bad. So we get in our minds that we need to run away. See, me, I wanna go to the next plantation over. But Stack, he figured we get to Mound Bayou. Small town. Right here in Mississippi. Founded by free slaves. And everything is Black-owned.
Sammie Moore
That sound like a crock.
Smoke
Yeah, well, I seen it.
Sammie Moore
Why y'all ain't stay?
Smoke
That mayor knew who our daddy was. Knew he was a evil man. Figured it was no way that he ain't passed that evil down to us. See, your daddy a preacher. You can go and do that. You like makin' music? Make church music. You wan' leave go on down Mound Bayou. Live with the proper Black folks. Leave all this here improper shit to us.
Sammie Moore
Well, I ain't going to Mound Bayou. My daddy a reverend, but I'm y'all cousin, too. And a lot more people know the Smokestack Twins then they know my daddy.
Smoke
Yeah? Well, you better enjoy the rest of the night, 'cause this your last juke.
Sammie Moore
You ain't in no position to tell me how to live my life.
Smoke
Come tomorrow, I find out about you playin' in one of these boy, I'll kill you myself.
Sammie Moore
Look, I'm leaving that plantation just like y'all did. And if that's a problem for you... kill me now.
Smoke
[He pulls out his handgun and points it at Sammie]
What's the matter? I'm a soldier, boy. And you just gave me a command. [He puts his handgun back in his holster]
Smoke
You Hogwood?
Hogwood
You boys twins?
Stack
[Sarcastically]
Nah, we cousins.
Hogwood
Well. Here she is. He moved a ton of timber a month back in his heyday. Workers lived upstairs. Say, what are you fellas planning on doing with the place?
Stack
Y'all wash these floors?
Hogwood
Yeah.
Smoke
What was on 'em?
Hogwood
I thought y'all was dead set on buying the place. More time I spend with y'all, the less sure I am you boys are serious about it.
Smoke
Ain't no "boys" here.
Stack
Just grown men. With grown-men money.
Smoke
And grown-men bullets
Hogwood
I didn't mean nothin' by it. Just the way we talk down here.
Smoke
We'll take it. The mill, the equipment, and the land that it's standing on.
Hogwood
[looking at the briefcase full of money]
Well, Damn!
Smoke
Now, understand, it's the last dime you ever gonna to see from us. And if we see you, or any one of your Klan buddies cross our property line, we gonna kill 'em right where they stand.
Hogwood
Shit. Klan don't exist no more.
Annie
What you come back for?
Smoke
We bought that old sawmill. Yeah, we gon' patch it up, make it into a juke joint.
Annie
A juke joint. This one of Stack's ideas?
Smoke
Yeah, he figure tonight gonna be a grand opening.
Annie
I thought y'all was done with the Delta. Last I heard, y'all were northern men.
Smoke
Nah, we through with Chicago.
Annie
Chicago through with y'all?
Smoke
What you asking?
Annie
Who you and Stack robbed to get enough money for them crackers to sell you a whole mill?
Smoke
I can’t believe you taking this make-believe shit.
Annie
[holds up a razor blade to Smoke's neck]
Smoke, give me my money ‘fore I cut your Black ass.
Smoke
You can put that blade up, woman. I’ll trade ya. [holds up cash wad]
Annie
I don’t want your money.
Smoke
Don’t be stupid, now.
Annie
I ain’t stupid. Your money come with blood.
Smoke
All money come with blood, baby. [puts away cash wad]
Annie
Not like yours.
Smoke
This shit won’t even spend nowhere else. Look at it.
Annie
I ain’t goin’ nowhere else. I don’t need that cursed money you got. [she takes dollar bill]
Smoke
You know, woman, I been all over this world. In cars, ships, trains. I seen men die ways I didn’t even know was possible. I ain’t never saw no roots, no demons… no ghosts, no magic. Just power. And only money can get you that.
Annie
You fool. All that war, or whatever the hell else you been doin’ in Chicago, and you back here in front of me. Two arms, two legs, two eyes, and a brain that work. How you know I ain’t pray... and work every root my grandmama taught me to keep you and that crazy brother of yours safe every day since you been gone?
Smoke
So why those roots ain’t work on our baby, then?
Annie
I don’t know. But they work for you. [places hand on Smoke's chest with him placing his hand on hers] You still got that mojo bag. [Smoke opens jacket] Soil of my soil, bone of my bone, blood of my blood. I bless you. Ashe. Why you here, Smoke? What you want with me?
Smoke
We was hopin’ to serve food at the juke tonight. We want you to cook for us.
Annie
Elijah.
Smoke
You gonna make me say it? It still hurts coming back here. But I love ya. And I miss ya.
Annie
[places hand on his crotch and speaks in Yoruba ]
Your body ain’t forget me. [Smoke makes love to her]
Sammie
So, tell me about Chicago. I heard they ain't got Jim Crow up there. Black man can go where he wants.
Smoke
Listen, boy, you can't be believin' everythin' that you hear. Town'll fill yo' head up with this make-believe, but me and yo' cousin? We gon' give it to you straight. Chicago ain't shit but Mississippi with tall buildings instead of plantations.
Stack
And that's why we came back home: Figured we might as well deal with the devil we know.
Remmick
You fellers must be the owners of this establishment.
Smoke
That's right. And you are?
Remmick
Name's Remmick. This here's Joan and Bert.
Sammie
Hey Stack, y'all alright?
Remmick
Aww, and you... must be that voice I heard from out here. Aw, it was beautiful.
Joan
God damn bee-yew-tiful voice.
Bert
Even through these walls.
Smoke
Where y'all from?
Joan
Just down the road.
Stack
And how far is that?
Remmick
North Carolina.
Smoke
Y'all Klan?
Remmick
[offended]
Sir... w-we believe in equality and music. We just came here to play. Spend some money, have a good time. Here, I'll show you.
Smoke
[Remmick, Joan, and Bert play "Picked Poor Robin Clean" on the banjo. The others watch in confusion, though Stack chuckles and nods along a bit.] [stopping the music after a bit]
Hold on hold on, just a minute.
Remmick
Aw, its just about to get good.
Smoke
Nah I believe ya. But this here a juke joint.
Stack
Blues music.
Bert
Well we've got money and we ready to spend it with y'all.
Remmick
Soundin' damn near perfect and you're saying we ain't welcome.
Smoke
Nah I'm saying you get down that road and get back into town. Plenty of white barrel houses down there.
Remmick
[chuckles]
Aw this- this cuz we're... [gestures to skin] Alright. [Points at Mary] How'd she get in?
Mary
Now that is none-
Annie
[interrupting]
She here cuz she family.
Remmick
Family... [sighs] Can- can we just, for one night, just all be family? [he steps forward, and Smoke reaches for his gun] Y-you don't need to do that, sir. We'll be on our way. But we're gonna walk real slow, just in case y'all change your mind.
Smoke
[Stack revives as a vampire after being bitten by Mary] [looks through the knife hole in the door]
Stack... ****, that's you?
Stack
Naw, fool, it's Jim Crow!
Bo
Hey, baby. Come on outside, I got the car started Let's go. [Grace doesn't move] Come on, Grace.
Grace
...he's killin' him.
Bo
[He glances over to Cornbread, who's killing a juke patron]
Oh, you talking about that? Don't worry about Cornbread. He's just a little hungry, that's all. Let's go, come on.
Bo
[Grace just stares at him. There's blood on the back of his shirt.]
Come on and go. I got the car warmed up. [He looks back to Grace, obviously unamused] Or... you let me back in there, and I'll come in and we can grab our things and head home.
Annie
Don't listen to him.
Smoke
Grace, we're gonna find a way out of this, I promise.
Remmick
I am your way out. This world already left you for dead. Won't let you build, won't let you fellowship. We will do just that. Together. Forever.
Bo
It's better this way, baby. So why don't you go ahead and invite us in?
Remmick
You should listen to him, Grace, or listen to me. Because I know everything he knows now, and I want you to let us in there. Or we're gonna go to the grocery store, we're gonna pay little Lisa a visit.
Grace
No, no, no, don’t you **** dare!
Remmick
Oh, yeah, Grace, I know everything now. [he starts speaking Toisan] Even how you like to be licked. I can promise I won't bite too hard.
Sammie Moore
You're the devil, ain't you?
Remmick
Sammie! You're the one I came for. I sensed you. I want to see my people again, I'm trapped here. But your gifts can bring them to me. Y'all give them to me now. Just- just give me little Sammie. We'll let y'all live.
Smoke
[Sammie moves to the door, but Smoke and the others hold him back]
Hey, hey, easy.
Delta Slim
I'm gonna tell you something, you goddamn peckerwood. You can't have him. He belongs to us. He belongs with us! And I ain't gonna let that happen.
Remmick
You can't save him, Smoke - no more than you could save your brother.
Remmick
[Stack walks up to Club Juke, laughing and carrying Mary in his arms]
You ain't safe here. No matter how many guns or how much money, they gonna take it from you when they want. You built something here tonight, and it was beautiful. But it was built on a lie. Hogwood? Well, he's the grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. [He points to Bert] That's his mother**** nephew! They was always gonna kill you - I just happened to show up at the right place at the right time.
Stack
He telling the truth, Smoke. I can see his memories.
Delta Slim
Smoke, that ain't your brother.
Stack
This wasn't no juke joint, no club. This is a... slaughterhouse.
Bert
It's a goddamn killing floor.
Joan
But what Uncle Hogwood don't know is we gonna start ourselves a new Klan based on love.
Remmick
Now that we got numbers, we'll probably go to that old bigot and rectify him, too.
Annie
Why can't y'all just go?
Mary
Because we're not leaving without y'all. We family. Ain't that right? I know it sound crazy, but... after we kill y'all, we're gonna have heaven right here on Earth!
Smoke
[holding wooden stake towards Stack]
Sorry I couldn't keep you safe.
Stack
Don't be sorry, you always did.
Cornbread
Slim! Smoke!
Delta Slim
Where the hell you been at, man? Huh?
Cornbread
To go see a man about a dog, like I told you, you old drunk. Turns out I need to take a shit, too. [Noticing that Smoke is covered in blood] God Dog! What happened to you, Smoke?
Smoke
Stack dead. ****, what the **** happened to you?
Cornbread
I'm sorry. All right, well, let me in, so I can help.
Annie: Hold on.
Cornbread
What y'all doin'? Just step aside and let me on in, now.
Annie
Why do you need him to do that? You big and strong enough to push past us.
Cornbread
Well, that wouldn't be too polite now, would it, Miss Annie. I don't know why I'm talking to you anyway. Probably your fish sandwich messed up my guts in the first place. Usin' old, stale grease.
Annie
[Defensively]
I ain't never used stale grease, and you know it.
Cornbread
Shut up, Annie. Smoke...
Annie
Don't talk to him. You talkin' to me right now. Why can't you just walk your big ass up in here without an invite, huh? Go 'head. Admit to it.
Cornbread
Admit to what?
Annie
That you dead. That one of them white folks out there kill you, and you a haint now.
Cornbread
[Laughs]
Smoke, you listenin' to this? Woman, this man showed me kindness. Employed me. Grabbed me out of the field. Now, he say his brother been killed. The man needs comfort, not you fillin' up his mind with that old Louisiana bayou bullshit you on. Now, we out here playing games, telling ghost stories in place of doin' what we ought to do.
Delta Slim
And what is it we s'pose to be doin'?
Cornbread
[Spreading out his arms]
Being kind to one another. And bein' polite. Now, we is one people's. And we shouldn't go in, bargin' into other folks' places uninvited. So...
Smoke
You been in and outta here all day. Ain't never need an invite then. Yeah, somethin' ain't addin' up.
Cornbread
Shit, Stack was my ride up here. I 'posed to walk back?
Smoke
That ain't my problem.
Cornbread
Well, it be, your own peoples. And I thought you was better than this, but you just like the white man. Can I at least get my money?
Delta Slim
Oh you did such a bang-up job, now you wanna to get paid for what you ain't did.
Cornbread
Ain't nobody talkin' to you, you old drunk. Shut your mouth.
Delta Slim
No, you shut the **** up. Don't give him shit, Smoke. Don't give him nothin'. [Smoke is taking money out of his pocket]
Annie
Careful.
Smoke
Terry? Boy, how you been?
Terry
I was doing better 'fore you shot me in the ass.
