Coffy (1973)

Booker Bradshaw: Howard Brunswick

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• Howard Brunswick : Black people want dope and brown people want dope, and as long as people are deprived of a decent life, they're gonna want something just to plain feel good with. And nothings gonna change that - except money and power. And that's what I'm after, baby. Power - to change things for our people. I want to get all that money back into the hands of black people.

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  Howard Brunswick : Coffy, baby, you got to understand. I thought you were dead!

• Howard Brunswick : You're upset, you can see that don't you?

  Coffy : I can see plenty! I can see how every time a kid rips off a car or an appliance store to get a fix, you get your cut.

• Howard Brunswick : What I did was for our people, for our brothers and sisters.

  Coffy : You shouldn't talk to me about sisters, Howard, I've got a sister.

• Coffy : [holding a shotgun on Howard]  Hello Howard, come and sit down, I ain't mad at you.

  Howard Brunswick : Coffy baby, I knew they weren't really going to do it.

  Coffy : Oh I ain't here because they didn't try, lover.

  Howard Brunswick : Well they would've done it anyway, no matter what I said, you know that don't you?

  Coffy : Yeah I know, I told you I ain't mad.

• Howard Brunswick : You know I never mix business with pleasure - except in a ratio of three to one.

• Howard Brunswick : He's the heat, baby. So don't pull out any pills or joints.

  Coffy : Oh, really! The fuzz, huh!

• Ramos : Well, I gotta go catch me some criminals.

  Coffy : Oh, so soon? You were just getting warmed up.

  Howard Brunswick : He's got hippies to beat up.

  Ramos : Yeah. The day of a public servant is never over.

• Howard Brunswick : I love you, baby. You're my woman.

  Coffy : Oh, I'll say I am. Oh, you're - my man.

• Howard Brunswick : What's the matter, Coffy, baby? Something bothering you?

  Coffy : Oh, I've just been thinking about having to go back to work tonight. That night shift has been making me a little jumpy.

  Howard Brunswick : I thought it was because when a man gets my age he can't satisfy them lusty young bitches no mo'.

  Coffy : Now, don't start gettin' insecure grandpa, now. Now, you know that long goodie will keep on workin' as long as I'm able to handle it. And you know it too! You old dog, you.

• Howard Brunswick : You see, it's this vicious combination of big business and government which has kept our sisters prostitutes and our brothers dope peddlers.

• Howard Brunswick : Where do you think that $100 a day goes? Oh, sure, part of it goes to black pushers and distributors. But, the main part of it - the really big part - goes to those white men who import the narcotics. And the big part goes to those white men who corrupt our law enforcement agencies. And the big part goes to those white men who draft our black boys and send them over to Indo-China - to protect other white men who are the original suppliers of the narcotics. So, you see this whole thing becomes a vicious attempt as a part of the white power structure to exploit our black men and women in this society.

  Crowd : Right on!

• McHenry : I don't know what it's all about and I don't really want to know.

  Howard Brunswick : You're a smart cop, Sergeant.

• Howard Brunswick : Sure, I know her! She's just some broad I fuck.

• Howard Brunswick : Black, brown or yellow - I'm in it for the green. The green buck!