A Walk to Dignity/Quotes

Early Cuyler: Herschel walker, baby! Yeah!
Sheriff: Early? What you doin’?
Early Cuyler: Nothing to see here. This is a legitimate Georgia Bulldog national championship football celebration.
Sheriff: Well, they hadn’t won one since 1980 --
Early Cuyler: Hell yeah! I’m still exciteder than hell about it. Go, you silver britches!
Sheriff: Early, take a ride with me. Come on. I need to talk to you.
Early Cuyler: Alright. Shotgun!
Sheriff: You heard him, Denny. Get on in the back.
Deputy Denny: But we keep the firearms up here.
Sheriff: He called shotgun first, Denny. It’s a bro-code thing.
Early Cuyler: Hold on, now, sawed-off. I got shotgun on them back seats, too.
Deputy Denny: Dang it!
Sheriff: Oh, come on up here, Denny, and ride in my lap.
Early Cuyler: Shotgun! Your seat! Move them sweet cheeks. Come on. Get to steppin’.
Sheriff: He shotgunned all the seats. We’re in a real damn pickle now.
Early Cuyler: Go, dawgs! Sic me! I guess we all walkin’.
Sheriff: Well, here we are, remember this?
Early Cuyler: Finally! A lawn jockey that’s a squid. I’m so damn tired of lawn jockeys being just blacks and gnomes. D.C.’s gots its head up its ass with all them affirmative-action gnome quotas.
Sheriff: No, Early, that ain’t a lawn jockey. That’s you when you was just a young man. And look -- There’s my daddy, standing right alongside you. It’s a statue to commemorate the integration of the Dougal County school system.
Deputy Denny: Wasn’t the school integrated back in the early 60’s?
Sheriff: Well, sure it was, for blacks and whites, but not for critters. No offense. My daddy changed all that, though. Yep, animals and people attending schools together.
Ga Ga Pee Pap Cuyler: There ya go.
Early Cuyler: Like this, daddy? You like this, Sheriff?
Ga Ga Pee Pap Cuyler: Harder! Carzier!
Early Cuyler: Is this good? Am I doin’ it right?
Sheriff’s Father: What’s doin’, Hezekiah Ray?
Ga Ga Pee Pap Cuyler: My boy just done a fancy mountain dance in your field of vision, and you was clearly entertained. Now you owe me twenty five cent, or may God take both your eyeballs.
Sheriff’s Father: Okeydoke.
Early Cuyler: Now that’s a fine dance there, Early. Here, why don’t you go get yourself a pop?
Ga Ga Pee Pap Cuyler: Quick, boy! He’s looking at ya! Dance it up again! Ha ha! Yeah! You done looked again! Peel off another quarter dollar, you dumb-as-a-stump son of a bitch!
Sheriff’s Father: Okay. I’m not looking now. Just grab the coin out of my hand. Y’all have a good day now.
Early Cuyler: Is this good?
Ga Ga Pee Pap Cuyler: Clear that quarter, bitch!
Sheriff: Hey, daddy, knock knock?
Sheriff’s Father: Who’s there?
Sheriff: Squid.
Sheriff’s Father: Squid who?
Sheriff: Me dumb squid, slanty eyes. Me make poo poo on your fries!
Sheriff’s Father: Sharif! You substituted squids in my favorite joke about Asians. Why?
Sheriff: Because squishers are dirty and poor, and they steal stuff and they eat mud, and I hate them dumb cephalos.
Sheriff’s Father: Look, son, those squids are just like us on the inside, except they have ink sacs. And they have eight legs. And they, uh -- They do eat mud. No, they’re nothing like us.
Ga Ga Pee Pap Cuyler: See what I’m doing here? Now you seen my mountain dance. So now you owe me the money, boy.
Early Cuyler: Aw, damn.
Ga Ga Pee Pap Cuyler: You stay here and don’t stop dancing. I’m going down to get my dinner liquor.
Sheriff: Back then, there was a lot of prejudice against aquatic-Americans. Remember how drunk folks used to throw y’all for amusement?
Early Cuyler: And for cash damn money on the barrel head. Them was the good old days, back before the South became such a pussy.
Sheriff: You know, sometimes people would throw y’all and they wouldn’t even pay nothin’.
Ga Ga Pee Pap Cuyler: I’ll invoice you!
Sheriff: They’d toss you into a fire…
Ga Ga Pee Pap Cuyler: It burns!
Sheriff: …Barbed-wire fence…
Ga Ga Pee Pap Cuyler: This sucks.
Sheriff: Sometimes they’d pay your daddy in pennies. They’d whip ‘em at his face as hard as they could, one after the other.
Ga Ga Pee Pap Cuyler: You’re still ten cents short. But I appreciate your loyalty to my weird business.
Early Cuyler: Then the P.C. police come along and denied us a working wage. Hell, its got to the point where you can’t let no-damn-body toss you into a wood chipper. My body, my decision!
Sheriff: Look, I ain’t saying it’s right, but folks would buy into the stereotypes about squids back then.
Early Cuyler: Like that fact that we can suck the disease out of a man with our arm suckers?
Sheriff: Hadn’t most of that’s been disproved over time?
Early Cuyler: Oh, listen to old two-packs-a-day here. Don’t you come blubbering to me when they find a spot on your x-ray.
Sheriff: Early, my point is, that everybody else wrote y’all squids off, but my daddy saw more in you.
Sheriff’s Father: All I’m sayin’ is, there’s a better future for your boy than standing on a street corner all night doing a crazy mountain jig for strangers.
Ga Ga Pee Pap Cuyler: Name one.
Sheriff’s Father: Well, we could go to school, learn a trade.
Ga Ga Pee Pap Cuyler: You want to send him to the space moon and be a space astronaut?
Granny Cuyler: You can send him straight to the sun for all I care!
Sheriff’s Father: Well, I was talking appliance repair --
Ga Ga Pee Pap Cuyler: School ain’t not never ain’t gonna put no not food in his belly don’t never!
Sheriff’s Father: Sure it will. We got a free school lunch program for folks like y’all. Well, they’ll send a bus out here to pick him up.
Ga Ga Pee Pap Cuyler: So you’re gonna take him away from me and his grandmama, who may or may not be also my wife?
Granny Cuyler: Like free babysitting and somebody else is the mom?
Sheriff’s Father: Well, the taxpayers foot the bill, but, yeah, it -- It’s free to you.
Granny Cuyler: Yeah! Send his ass to school!
Ga Ga Pee Pap Cuyler: You ain’t even got to pay for this dance. It’s on the house.
Sheriff: But daddy still had to convince the Dougal County school board to let y’all in, and back then, that was a pretty tall order.
Dougal County Elementary School Chairman: Marine life ain’t ought to be co-mingle-tating with our kind.
Sheriff’s Father: Now hang on just a second. Now, I know these squids look stupid and smell bad and we hate ‘em, but they’re not dumb beasts.
Unnamed Man: Whoo!
Granny Cuyler: Yay!
Ga Ga Pee Pap Cuyler: There you go.
Sheriff’s Father: I mean, they’re not smart, by any stretch, either, but with some training and education, well, one day they could learn to pump our gas or maybe even work a paintbrush.
Ga Ga Pee Pap Cuyler: It’s free to throw the old one, because I don’t love her no more.
Granny Cuyler: It’s free to throw you, bitch! I’ll wring your neck!
Dougal County Elementary School Chairman: Alright! Quiet! There ain’t gonna be no sub-snatching, green-skinned freaks in Dougal County schools! No, sir! Not on my watch!
Sheriff: Turns out, his watch wasn’t very long. He came down with the lung cancer, and conventional medicine just really couldn’t do much for him.
Dougal County Elementary School Chairman: I hear that y’all squids can suck the cancer clean out of a man.
Ga Ga Pee Pap Cuyler: That’s very true. Come on in here and take your clothes off. Alright, there you go. I think we got it all.
Dougal County Elementary School Chairman: That’s it? I’m cured?
Ga Ga Pee Pap Cuyler: You in full omission.
Dougal County Elementary School Chairman: Praise God in Heaven above! I’ll tell you, the things I said about y’all almost makes me feel bad in some way.
Early Cuyler: So I get to go to the human school now?
Dougal County Elementary School Chairman: No, no, no. God, no. My kids go to that school.
Ga Ga Pee Pap Cuyler: How about us take a quarter and call it even?
Dougal County Elementary School Chairman: Will you take it in nickels?
Ga Ga Pee Pap Cuyler: We take nickels, yeah.
Dougal County Elementary School Chairman: I got a new lease on life!
Sheriff: The chairman died two days later of lung cancer. But daddy, he went ahead and forged the chairman’s signature on the document that said you could attend school. As long as I’ll live, I’ll never forget the sight on that historic day. Blacks and whites working in unity to hate you and keep you out of their school.
Granny Cuyler: Don’t let him in!
Ga Ga Pee Pap Cuyler: Go back to Atlantis, you squishy sub-snatcher!
Sheriff’s Father: You ready to make history? Have a good day at school now.
Sheriff: Daddy put it all on the line for you that day… And you made him look pretty damn stupid when you up and quit ten minutes later.
Early Cuyler: Hell with that mess!
Sheriff’s Father: Where the hell you goin’?! Get your ass back here!
Early Cuyler: But wasn’t it the great Abraham Lincoln who said, “Beware of schools. They run by jews?”
Sheriff: Well, Early, he said it, but you’re taking his most famous words out of context.
Early Cuyler: Sheriff, look at that shiny truck I got. Now smell my finger. I’ve had success in this life. I don’t need no damn state schools to tell me how to make it happen for me and mine.
Sheriff: Well, be that as it may, we’re dedicating that statue tomorrow afternoon. And I sure hope you’ll be… There. My daddy had a dream -- A bold dream. But when NASCAR told him they weren’t going to have cheerleaders, especially not male ones, he put that dream to bed and moved here to Dougal County to become a lawman, and he saw to it that not just men of all colors could go to school but animals, too. Creatures of the sea. We now know this to be a mistake. Guess we just weren’t ready back then. Was daddy too progressive for his time? Maybe. But he stood up to injustice. When someone in power tried to stop him, he would pretend to agree with them, then wait for them to die, and find a way to work around them. And if the inspiration for this statue was here today --
Early Cuyler: I am here today.
Sheriff: Actually, Early, was talkin’ about my daddy --
Early Cuyler: I have some words. Forty years ago, the Sheriff’s daddy went to great lengths to give me the chance to quit school. And because of my selfless, heroic actions on that day, my son was also able to quit school. And someday, his illegitimate son, born out of wedlock, will also have the opportunity to quit this very same government school. School sucks!
Sheriff: What in the hell?
Granny Cuyler: Sorry. We had to melt down your daddy to give Early the upper body mass he requested.
Early Cuyler: This is how I would’ve looked had I exercised the way I had fully intended to. I am a many muscled man!
Glenn: Made in Georgia.