Stack We 'bout to get it poppin' like fish grease, boy!
Played by Michael B. Jordan 
Sinners (2025) · 48 quotes
Sinners (2025) · 48 quotes
Most-quoted character in Sinners (2025): in 17 of its 48 quotes
Most scenes with: Smoke (6), Sammie (6), Mary (6)
Y'all ready to eat? Y'all ready to drink? Y'all ready to sweat till y'all stank?
More lines from Stack
2 quotes Stack Stack [after failing to convince Smoke to join him and Remmick]
No vision.
Scenes with Stack
14 scenes
Mornin' Pop.
Jedidiah
You're up awful early, son.
Like you say, jump on the work don't let the work jump on you.
Jedidiah
That's right.
Finished my quota for the day. [Notices the guitar]
Jedidiah
Yeah. I brought it in here. I want you to help me give my sermon tomorrow. First Corinthians, 10:13. Read.
No temptation has overtaken you, except what is common to mankind. God is faithful. He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you're tempted he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. Now, Pop if you don't mind, I'm gon' be late.
Jedidiah
Late for what, boy? Where you gotta that's more important then being in the House of God?
I've been workin' all week, Pop. Wanna be free of all this for a day.
Jedidiah
To play music? For drunkards? Philanderers, who shirk their responsibilities to their families so they can sweat all over each other?
I'll be back in time for service in the morning.
Jedidiah
Son? You keep dancing with the devil one day, he's gonna follow you home.
Stack Hey, lil' cousin. Come on out. Got two dollars out here waiting on a dime. [Sammie goes out to be with his cousins]
Jedidiah
Samuel!
Stack Aw, don't you worry now, uncle Jed. We gon' get him back to you in one piece.
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.
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.
Ain't no "boys" here.
Stack Just grown men. With grown-men money.
And grown-men bullets
Hogwood
I didn't mean nothin' by it. Just the way we talk down here.
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!
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.
Delta Slim.
Yeah, I thank you for your generosity. I guess that Chicago wind blew your black asses back down here, huh? Who the boy?
Stack This my little cousin. Preacherboy Sammie. Happens to be the finest blues player in all the Delta.
I got socks older than this here boy. What the hell he know about the blues?
Hold up, now. Put down that mother****er...
Stack Put that away.
Now, this here my patch right here. Now, you wasn't his cousin and a young pup to boot. I'd cut your ass too thin to fry.
Stack And you threaten him again I'mma make your drunk ass swallow that harmonica. You still nice with them keys?
Depend on who you ask.
Stack I'll give you $20 to come play at our juke tonight.
Yeah, I wish I could. I'mma be at Messengers tonight same as I am every Saturday night.
Stack What they pay you?
For a gangster, you sure ask a lot of questions.
Stack They ain't paying you $20 a night, I know that.
You ain't paying no $20 a night. You payin' $20, maybe, tonight. I ain't never heard of your juke. Maybe it's here tonight, is it here tomorrow night? The week after that? Nah. I've been at Messengers every Saturday night for the last ten years. Messenger's gon' be there another ten years after that, at least. Shit. That's probably more time than I got left on this earth, Stack. I play, and I get as much corn liquor as I can drink. A sinner like me, I can't ask for more than that.
Stack Know what, Slim? I'll drink to that. [He takes out and opens up a bottle of liquor]
Ooh. What you got there, boy?
Stack Oh, this? It's a Irish beer. Straight from the north side of Chicago.
You sayin' that's beer?
Stack Wind didn't bring us down here empty-handed. [He hands Slim the bottle]
Stack I got 500 more bottles just like that. Ice cold. Say we pay you $40 a night, and all the beer that you can drink. After that, no strings. You act now, I'll even let you finish that bottle in your hand. [Slim and Sammie are performing] These two gon' be playin' down at the old sawmill. It's the grand openin' of our new joint. Club Juke. We gon' have us a battle of the blues. It's gon' be a real-ring-a-ding-ding. Just for us. Y'all ready to eat? Y'all ready to drink? Y'all ready to sweat till y'all stank. All right. We gon' to get funky like a Mississippi donkey y'all. Get a drink on the Twins when you get there.
So, tell me about Chicago. I heard they ain't got Jim Crow up there. Black man can go where he wants.
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.
You know, I waited for you.
Stack Shit, I don't know why in the hell you gon' do that.
Because you told me you loved me.
Stack Well, I told you to stay the **** away from me, too, but I guess you didn't hear that part, huh?
Ohh, I heard you. I heard you loud and clear, but then you stuck your tongue in my cooze and **** me so hard, I figured you changed your mind.
Stack Keep your voice down now.
Stack The hell are you doin' back here, Mary?
I buried my mama yesterday, Stack. Figured I'd might see you and Smoke there, as much as she looked after you both. But I guess y'all love lasted as long as y'all could get somethin' out of her.
Stack You right. That's all she was: Food, a warm bed.
Rot in Hell, Stack! [walks away]
Stack Shit, I will. [as she walks away] And save yo' triflin' ass a room! Shit, right next to me... shit...
Stack What's it gon' take, hmm? How much to getchu to get the **** on?
You can't pay me off.
Stack Fine... I'll pay one of these field bitches in here to drag yo' ass out, then—
Shit, you taught me how to fight; I'll beat up every bitch in here, and you know it.
Stack I taught you how to walk away when the money's up, too. Got you a rich white husband, got you a farm, now go home to it.
I ain't ask for none of that - all that shit was your idea! I didn't want no white man, I didn't want to be white. I wanted to be with you!
Stack All it'd take is the wrong person in here to see you - word get back to them crackas, and they gon' try to kill you.
What would it matter to you?
Stack 'Cause, if somebody out there put they hands on you... if they hurt you... me and my brother gon' come kill 'em all.
So you'll kill for me.
Stack That's right.
But you still won't tell me the truth. I was young enough to believe you were comin' back. I waited. I waited a long time. But I'm grown now, Stack! And I know you never planned to stay. Why can't you just say that?!
Stack Say what? Hmm? [He removes his hat] That I love you? That I think about you every day? I just wanted to keep you someplace safe. And that was never gon' be here... and it was never gon' be with me. Never.
You fellers must be the owners of this establishment.
That's right. And you are?
Name's Remmick. This here's Joan and Bert.
Hey Stack, y'all alright?
Aww, and you... must be that voice I heard from out here. Aw, it was beautiful.
God damn bee-yew-tiful voice.
Even through these walls.
Where y'all from?
Just down the road.
Stack And how far is that?
North Carolina.
Y'all Klan?
[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.
[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.
Aw, its just about to get good.
Nah I believe ya. But this here a juke joint.
Stack Blues music.
Well we've got money and we ready to spend it with y'all.
Soundin' damn near perfect and you're saying we ain't welcome.
Nah I'm saying you get down that road and get back into town. Plenty of white barrel houses down there.
[chuckles]
Aw this- this cuz we're... [gestures to skin] Alright. [Points at Mary] How'd she get in?
Now that is none-
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.
Stack You droolin'.
You want some?
[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!
You're the devil, ain't you?
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.
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.
You can't save him, Smoke - no more than you could save your brother.
[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.
Smoke, that ain't your brother.
Stack This wasn't no juke joint, no club. This is a... slaughterhouse.
It's a goddamn killing floor.
But what Uncle Hogwood don't know is we gonna start ourselves a new Klan based on love.
Now that we got numbers, we'll probably go to that old bigot and rectify him, too.
Why can't y'all just go?
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!
Hey, let me tell you somethin'. Let me tell YOU goddamn somethin', ****. The Stack I know, he ain't fellowshipping with no goddamn devil.
Stack **** you, ****. It is me. Elias Moore. And I'm talking to my big brother right now, so I'mma kindly ask you to shut the **** up.
Stack [turns to Smoke]
We was never gonna be free. We've been running around everywhere looking for freedom. You know damn well we was never gonna find it. Until this. This is the way. Together. Forever. And I ain't doing this shit without ya. There is no me without you. What's it gon' be?
Stack Don't be sorry, you always did.
You know something? Maybe once a week, I wake up paralyzed, reliving that night. But before the sun went down, I think that was the best day of my life. Was it like that for you?
Stack [He smiles]
No doubt about it. Last time I seen my brother.
Stack [In a flashback, Smoke and Stack hug each other]
Last time I seen the sun. And just for a few hours... we was free.
