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Lee Daniels' The Butler Quotes: Clunky but Earnest(Total Quotes: 103)
Directed by: Lee Daniels
Written by:
Danny Strong
Wil Haygood (article: "A Butler Well Served by This Election")
Forest Whitaker – Cecil Gaines
Oprah Winfrey – Gloria Gaines
David Oyelowo as Louis Gaines
Elijah Kelley – Charlie Gaines
David Banner – Earl Gaines
Mariah Carey – Hattie Pearl
Terrence Howard – Howard
Adriane Lenox – Gina
Yaya DaCosta – Carol Hammie
Alex Pettyfer – Thomas Westfall
Vanessa Redgrave – Annabeth Westfall
Clarence Williams III – Maynard
Robin Williams – Dwight D. Eisenhower
James DuMont – Sherman Adams
Robert Aberdeen – Herbert Brownell, Jr.
James Marsden – John F. Kennedy
Minka Kelly – First Lady Jackie Kennedy
Liev Schreiber – Lyndon B. Johnson
John Cusack – Richard Nixon
Alex Manette – H. R. Haldeman
Colin Walker – John Ehrlichman
Alan Rickman – Ronald Reagan
Jane Fonda – First Lady Nancy Reagan
Lee Daniels' The Butler quotes are an ambitious undertaking that has merged facts with fiction to provide an earnest but clunky journey through important historical events. The story is based on the life of late Eugene Allen, an African-American who was employed as a butler in the White House for over thirty years and traces the dramatic changes that American society went through, from the civil rights movement to Vietnam and beyond, and how those changes affected Allen's life and family.
In the movie, Cecil Gaines is the character that is inspired by Allen's life and it shows him starting from humble beginnings to becoming a butler at the White House and how the demands of his job take their toll on his wife and put him at odds with his oldest son. The movie is shot in a straight narrative style with no place for subtlety and the script highlights important moments, giving them just enough focus, but because there is so much material to cover and not enough time it means some subplots have been truncated and don't fit in with the general story giving the movie an uneven feel.
What really saves this movie from being a total failure are the strong performances from the ensemble cast, especially Whitaker, Winfrey and Oyelowo, whose performances elevate the movie. However, the actors that play the U.S. presidents and their wives only have a few minutes in the movie, so it's difficult to relate to them as real people and not just caricatures. They are all good in the little screen time they get, with the weakest links being Robin Williams as Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Cusack as Richard Nixon.
Verdict: As a whole it's clear that this movie was produced with good intentions with its heart in the right place, but it just misses being truly graceful and satisfying.
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[an elderly Cecil Gaines is sitting in the White House, waiting patiently, he has a brief flashback of a moment when he saw two African Americans hung together; a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. appears stating "Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that."]
[first lines; as Cecil continues to wait he has flashback to his past in 1926, Macon, Georgia where Cecil grew up on a cotton farm]
Cecil Gaines: [voice over] The only thing I ever knew was cotton. It was hard work.
[young Cecil is with his father, Earl, who is teaching him about cotton picking]
Earl Gaines: Now you know the cotton is ready when the bud splits and the bowl is star shaped, like a big old star in the sky. Like your big ol' head.
[Earl throws some cotton onto young Cecil's head playfully and they both laugh]
Earl Gaines: Would you like some cotton?
Cecil Gaines: [voice over] But I didn't mind cause I got to spend all day working with my daddy.
[Cecil is with his mother, Hattie and Earl are in the middle of the cotton field; Earl turns to Abraham, a young boy with a camera]
Earl Gaines: Do you want to take his picture?
Abraham: I'll take a picture of you all. Why don't everybody smile?
[Earl, Hattie and Cecil attempt to smile and Abraham takes a picture of them]
[Thomas Westfall, the owner of the plantation, is walking in the cotton field when he comes up to Hattie as she's working in the field with Earl]
Thomas Westfall: Hattie, come on. I need your help in the shed.
[Hattie hesitates]
Thomas Westfall: Come on.
[she reluctantly follows him and he takes her hand; Earl and Cecil watch as Thomas takes Hattie away]
Cecil Gaines (8): Pa, where is he taking Ma?
Earl Gaines: Get back to work.
[Cecil starts running after Hattie and Thomas]
Earl Gaines: Cecil, come back here, boy!
[Earl runs after Cecil and grabs hold of him; Cecil watches as Thomas takes Hattie into the shed]
Cecil Gaines (8): Mama!
Earl Gaines: Come here. Look at me, boy! Don't you lose your temper with that man. This his world, we're just living in it. You hear me? Now get on back to work.
[Earl pushes Cecil back, he turns and looks at the shed Thomas has taken Hattie in and they hear her screams]
[Cecil watches as Thomas walks out of the shed]
Cecil Gaines (8): Pa, what you gonna do?
[Earl calls out to Thomas as he's walking away]
Earl Gaines: Hey.
[Thomas turns and faces Earl, he takes out his gun and points it at Earl and as he shoots Cecil screams out]
Cecil Gaines (8): Daaad!
[Thomas shoots Earl in the head, killing him instantly, the whole field is silent as they watch in horror, Thomas turns to look at Cecil for a moment, Cecil runs to his father's body weeping and Thomas' mother, Annabeth rushes to the field]
Thomas Westfall: What are you looking at? Huh? Who wants to go next? You get back to work.
[Thomas walks away, Annabeth looks at Earl's body]
Annabeth Westfall: Hey, you. Get some of the hands to help dig a hole for his Pa. Hurry up!
[Annabeth kneels in front of a weeping Cecil]
Annabeth Westfall: Stop crying. I'm gonna have you in the house now. I'm gonna teach you how to be a house nigger.
[we see Cecil now serving in the house]
House Cook: He's coming.
Cecil Gaines (8): Yessum.
Annabeth Westfall: And quite when you're serving. I don't even want to hear you breath.
Cecil Gaines (8): Yes, ma'am.
Annabeth Westfall: The room should feel empty when you're in it.
[later in the dining room, Cecil helps serve food at the table]
Cecil Gaines: [voice over] It was much nicer working in the house than in the field.
Annabeth Westfall: Crazy nigger than the last.
[Cecil stops serving the food and starts to walks away from the table when suddenly Thomas grabs Cecil and stops him]
Thomas Westfall: Give me more.
[we see young Cecil serving around the house until he turns 15]
Cecil Gaines: [voice over] When I got older I knew I had to go before he killed me too. Part of me was scared to leave, it was the only world that I knew.
[Cecil says visits Earl's grave then goes to say goodbye to Hattie]
Cecil Gaines (15): Ma, I took Pa's watch.
[Hattie is sat on the porch looking ahead and unresponsive, he sits next to her]
Cecil Gaines (15): Ma. Ma, I'm leaving.
Cecil Gaines: [voice over] My mama never spoke much after that. I knew she's miss me, but I also knew she wanted me to leave that place.
[Cecil then goes to say goodbye to Annabeth, she places a book inside his shirt]
Cecil Gaines: [voice over] And even though Miss Annabeth never said it, I knew she'd miss me too.
[Cecil starts walking away from the plantation and the cotton field]
Cecil Gaines: [voice over] I don't think God meant for people to not have a family.
Cecil Gaines: [voice over] Outside the cotton field was even worse than I thought it would be. No one would give me a job, or food, or a place to sleep.
[we see Cecil wandering the streets]
Cecil Gaines: [voice over] Any white man could kill any of us at any time and not be punished for it. The law wasn't on our side. The law was against us.
[we see Cecil coming across two African Americans that have been hung together, the same scene we'd seen at the beginning of the film; Cecil then comes across a pastry shop]
Cecil Gaines: [voice over] I was hungry all the time.
[Cecil looks with longing at the cakes inside the shop, suddenly he smashes the window and enters the shop; Maynard, the shop worker, is woken from the noise and comes down to find Cecil eating the cakes]
Maynard: You know what could happen to you, son?
[Cecil just looks at Maynard]
Maynard: Get up.
[Cecil doesn't move]
Maynard: I said get up.
[Maynard starts bandaging up Cecil's wounds from breaking the window]
Maynard: I'm gonna have to lie to the boss man about that window. Good Lord say, you ain't supposed to lie.
Cecil Gaines (15): Sorry, sir.
Maynard: Where's your Ma and your Pa?
Cecil Gaines (15): Ma crazy in the head and my Pa got killed.
Maynard: I'll make you some ham sandwiches, send you on your way. The boss will be here in a minute. Sundays are our busiest morning.
Cecil Gaines (15): You looking for some help? I know how to serve.
Maynard: You done broke our window, you done stole our food, and now you're asking for a job?
Cecil Gaines (15): Back in Macon I'm a house nigger, a good one.
[suddenly Maynard slaps Cecil in the face]
Maynard: Don't you ever use that word, son. That's a white man's word, it's filled with hate. Didn't your father ever teach you any better?
[Maynard starts teaching Cecil how to serve at the establishment]
Maynard: Slow down.
Cecil Gaines (15): Yes, sir.
[Maynard shows Cecil how to serve at the bar]
Maynard: Better to look through their eyes, see what it is they want.
[more montage of Maynard teaching Cecil how to clean and serve around the hotel]
Maynard: See what it is they need. Anticipate. When they smile, to look past their eyes.
[Maynard and Cecil are taking a break out by the porch; to one of the workers]
Maynard: Don't forget to save me them chitterlings.
Cecil Gaines (15): Why do you like chitterlings so much?
Maynard: Cause they taste good eating. The manager of Excelsior in DC, he came by yesterday. He offered me a job as a butler.
Cecil Gaines (15): Must be paying you top dollar, huh, boss?
[Cecil helps Maynard sit next to him on the porch]
Maynard: Yeah, I was thinking about taking it, but I don't know. I'm too old to be leading that kind of life, I'm just fine right here. I told him to hire you.
Cecil Gaines (15): I'm just now finding my way around this hotel. Ain't ready for all them high falutin white people and their fancy world.
Maynard: Listen, we got two faces. Us and the ones that we gotta show the white folks. Now to get up in the world, you have to make them feel non threatened. Use them fancy words that I done taught you. White folks up North, they like some uppity coloreds. Yeah.
[1957 – Washington DC]
Cecil Gaines: [voice over] I took that job in Washington. It was the most beautiful hotel I'd ever seen.
[we see an adult Cecil standing inside the lobby of the hotel holding a tray of drinks when a white couple walk up to him]
Cecil Gaines: I hope it wasn't too presumptuous of me to have prepared a few spirits after your long journey here from Buffalo.
[the couple look pleased and take their drinks; Cecil then walks into the bar to serve some white men talking about African Americans being integrated into white schools]
Male Guest: Best decision that court ever made was to slow this whole mess down. Niggers in school with white girls, who ever heard of such a thing? Next thing you know they'll be fornicating.
Mr. Jenkins: Yeah, but this here is different. We could start another Civil War.
[he turns to Cecil as he's pouring them drinks]
Mr. Jenkins: Cecil, what do you think about niggers going to school with white children?
Cecil Gaines: To be honest with you, Mr. Jenkins, I tend to not be too concerned with American or European politics.
Mr. Jenkins: Nor should you, Cecil. They're all criminals. Earl Warren should be shot and hanged. That dumb son of a bitch judge is trying to integrate our schools.
Cecil Gaines: I think Judge Warren is gonna find that quite challenging.
Mr. Jenkins: Damn right, Cecil. Damn right.
Cecil Gaines: [voice over] Never in my life did I dream that I'd work in a place as fancy as this. I never dreamed my life would be so good.
[we see Gloria at home, sitting at the kitchen table with a drink and smoking, as Charlie is doing his homework]
Cecil Gaines: [voice over] Gloria and I met working at the Excelsior, she was a maid at the hotel. But now her only job was raising out two boys. I made sure that they never laid eyes on a cotton field.
[Cecil arrives home from finishing his night shift at the hotel, he hears Charlie in the kitchen]
Charlie Gaines (10): I gotta pee.
Gloria Gaines: You're not your Daddy, don't try that. Finish that homework.
[Cecil walks into the kitchen]
Cecil Gaines: Where's Louis at?
Gloria Gaines: He's taking the trash out.
Charlie Gaines (10): Working late again, huh? How was your shift?
Cecil Gaines: It beats working for a living.
Gloria Gaines: I miss you at night, honey.
[Cecil looks at Gloria for a moment and then looks at Charlie]
Cecil Gaines: Didn't you say you gotta pee? Go on then. Wash your hands when you come out of that bathroom, boy.
[Charlie rises and walks out of the kitchen]
[after Charlie leaves the kitchen Gloria smiles at Cecil]
Gloria Gaines: Good morning.
Cecil Gaines: Good morning.
[Cecil bends to kiss Gloria]
Gloria Gaines: Morning, sir.
[as they are kissing Louise walks into the kitchen]
Louis Gaines: Hey, Dad.
Cecil Gaines: Hey, Louise. You alright?
Louis Gaines: Yeah, I'm fine.
Cecil Gaines: Good.
Gloria Gaines: There's a woman whose son got killed, she's around doing speeches now. What's her name, honey?
Cecil and Louise: Mamie Till.
[Gloria gets up to get Louise and Cecil some breakfast]
Gloria Gaines: Mamie Till. Hm, I remember that story just like it was yesterday even though it was three years ago. It was a damn disgrace what they did to that boy, just for looking at a white woman. Beat him up, threw his body in the river, killed him. He wasn't no older than Louise, he was fourteen at the time.
Cecil Gaines: Crazy white folks down South.
[Gloria places two plates of breakfast in front of Cecil and Gloria]
Louis Gaines: Thanks, Ma.
Gloria Gaines: At least we got it a little better in DC, huh?
Cecil Gaines: Still treating us bad too.
Gloria Gaines: Get on down here, Charlie. Wash your hands.
Charlie Gaines (10): Louis said we should stop taking the white man's shit.
[Louis hits Charlie on his arm]
Cecil Gaines: Hey!
Louis Gaines: Shut up.
Cecil Gaines: Watch your mouth,
Gloria Gaines: Watch your mouth.
[at that moment the phone rings and Charlie picks up the phone]
Charlie Gaines (10): Hello, Gaines residence.
[he listens for a moment]
Charlie Gaines (10): Uh…yeah. Hold on, Mr. Jenkins.
[to Cecil]
Charlie Gaines (10): It's boss man, Dad.
Gloria Gaines: What's he calling up for?
Cecil Gaines: [voice over] When the white man call, I always assume the worst.
[Cecil takes the phone]
Cecil Gaines: Yes, sir.
Cecil Gaines: [voice over] I would have put money on it. Guys gettin' laid off somethin' that day.
[we see Cecil driving up to the White House; then later he sits and waits in the White House when a white usher walks up to Cecil]
White Usher: Will you follow me please?
Cecil Gaines: Yes, sir.
[Cecil rises and follows the usher and he's taken to see the maître d', Freddie Fallows]
Cecil Gaines: I'm Cecil Gaines. It's a pleasure to meet you.
[Fallows extends his hand and they shake hands]
Freddie Fallows: You as well. Have a seat.
[they both sit and Fallows looks at the file on his desk for a moment and then looks at Cecil]
Freddie Fallows: Are you political, Mr. Gaines.
Cecil Gaines: No, sir.
Freddie Fallows: Good. We have no tolerance for politics at the White House.
[Cecil smiles as he looks at Fallows]
Cecil Gaines: How'd you find me?
Freddie Fallows: I didn't. You served R.D. Warner at the Excelsior Hotel. he oversees operations for the entire White House, you made quite an impression.
Cecil Gaines: I don't recall.
Freddie Fallows: Mr. Warner and myself make note of potential staff around town. Butler positions rarely open as most stay on for thirty years or more.
Cecil Gaines: I know, I was quite surprised that I got the call.
[Cecil laughs, Fallows watches him for a moment]
Freddie Fallows: It was a surprise for me as well. As the White House maître d', I normally hire the butlers.
[Fallows rises from his seat and turns his back to Cecil]
Cecil Gaines: Forgive me for saying this, Mr. Fallows. I certainly wouldn't want to be hired under circumstances that would make you feel uncomfortable.
Freddie Fallows: Oh, really?
Cecil Gaines: You need butlers that you've handpicked. A man to your liking that will fill your vision of a proper White House staff.
Freddie Fallows: Hm.
[Fallows looks at Cecil for a moment as he takes his seat behind his desk again]
[Cecil notices the crystal decanters on Fallows desk]
Cecil Gaines: Is that Louis Trois? These decanters are replicas of metal flasks that were found on the battlefield in Jarnac, correct? The Italians, they know their wines and the Irish they sure know how to make a great whiskey, but I believe the French have a distinct advantage when it comes to Cognac. C'est vrai?
[Fallows gives Cecil a serious look before smiling and replying]
Freddie Fallows: Oh, yeah. You'll make a good house nigger.
[this wipes the smile from Cecil's face and Fallows rises from his seat]
Freddie Fallows: Would you care for a demitasse?
[one evening the Gaines family celebrates Cecil's new job by inviting their closest friends and neighbors, Gloria sings along to the music]
Gloria Gaines: Sometimes they're just be and Faye up in here. Me, Faye and a little scotch.
[Gloria continues to enjoy the music]
Gloria Gaines: Sing it, Faye!
Gina: What did you do to this potato salad?
Gloria Gaines: Well, I tell you what I did. I put some dill in it because I read in Woman's Day where pickles drown out the flavor and dill bring up the flavor. That's what you're tasting right there.
Gina: Oh, okay.
[Gina eats another bite of the potato salad]
Gina: Yeah, I like it.
Gloria Gaines: It make a difference, don't it?
Gina: It really does. You must be so proud of Cecil.
Gloria Gaines: You know he got that job himself. the White House called him, he didn't call the White House.
Gina: He's a good man, you got a good man.
[just then Gina's husband, Howard, comes up and sits next to Gina after dancing with another one of the female guests]
Howard: She's fine. Not like this one right here, old sour puss. You still mad at me?
Gina: I got reason.
Howard: No, you don't. I told you I went down to the numbers spot, played my little number, got me some barbecue and then I went down and didn't even get nothin' to drink.
Gina: I am so…I'm so sick of these number spots stories, Howard. How do you expect me to believe you was down at the number spot…
Howard: Cause whether you believe it or not, don't make it no truer.
Gloria Gaines: Oh, come on. Come on, stop this now.
[to Gina]
Howard: You want to do this right now?
Gloria Gaines: Come on y'all. Come on, come on, come on.
[to Gina]
Howard: You don't believe it? You don't have to believe it.
Gloria Gaines: Hey, hey, hey.
[to Gina]
Howard: You really want to this right now?
[to Howard and Gina as they continue to bicker]
Gloria Gaines: Stop this right now, we are here to celebrate. So y'all could be nice, just one time. Come on.
Howard: You heard the lady, come on. Get over here.
[Howard playfully picks up Gina and puts her on his lap]
Gina: What are you…? Oh!
Gloria Gaines: We're celebrating.
[to Gina, as he holds her on his lap]
Howard: That's what I was doing, trying to make you happy.
[just then Cecil walks into the living room]
Cecil Gaines: You all need to get a room
[Howard laughs]
Gloria Gaines: Ain't that the truth. Or somethin'.
Gina: He drive me crazy. He just arrgghh…
[Cecil notice Louis sitting at the dining table quietly]
Cecil Gaines: Louis, you wanna come to the room?
Louis Gaines: No.
Howard: Hey, where the boys at?
Cecil Gaines: Perhaps they're in the back room.
Gloria Gaines: Boys, get on down here. I need to see your face now! What you all doing up here?
Gloria Gaines: Honey, when are you gonna take me to the White House?
Cecil Gaines: You wanna go to the White House, baby?
Gloria Gaines: You know I want to go to the White House.
Cecil Gaines: When do you wanna go?
Gloria Gaines: Don't play with me now, you know I want to go to the White House.
[Cecil smiles playfully]
Cecil Gaines: When do you wanna go?
Howard: The White House, now that's a big step up.
Cecil Gaines: It is a sight.
Gina: Ooh! Girl, get up in that house. I wanna hear all the stories.
Gloria Gaines: I don't know how many stories you're gonna hear, cause they done swear him to some kind of secret code and he can't tell me nothing.
Gina: Oh, no, no, no. Girl, you ain't giving' it to him right.
Gloria Gaines: Mm-hmm.
[to Gloria]
Cecil Gaines: That's the key right there. You listening? Do you hear?
[to Gina]
Howard: Girl, who've you been giving it to?
Gina: Well, if you had gotten home, I could be giving it to you.
Gloria Gaines: I don't know what you're talking about.
[Elroy, Howard and Gina's on, and Charlie run down the steps to the living room]
Gloria Gaines: Boys, stop running through this house. You know better than that.
Howard: Elroy, get…get over here. Come here.
[Elroy leans over the couch toward Howard]
Howard: Give me some money.
[Elroy smiles which makes Howard laugh]
Howard: Tell them what you're gonna be when you grow up.
Elroy: I wanna work at the White House, just like Mr. Gaines.
Gina: Ah, that's my boy.
Cecil Gaines: Right there.
Howard: Louis, What you gonna be when you grow up? Gonna work at the White House like your Daddy?
[Louis is still sitting quietly at the dining table, Gloria watches him]
Louis Gaines: I don't know.
Howard: I tell you one thing, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I was thirteen.
Gina: Yeah, a number runner.
[Howard and Gina laugh]
[Cecil arrives at the White House for his first day at work, he smiles at the security guard]
Cecil Gaines: I'm Cecil Gaines. I'm the new butler. Yes, sir.
[Cecil is shown around the White House by Fallows]
Freddie Fallows: There's sixteen full time maids. We have six butlers, four carpenters, two painters, seven electricians, three dishwashers, three doormen, a full kitchen staff including a pastry chef and three full time calligraphers.
[they walk down the hall]
Freddie Fallows: Two painters, seven electricians, nine engineers. Here comes Warner.
[Fallows stops as Warner walks towards them]
Cecil Gaines: Uh…Mr. Warner, I wanted to uh…thank you for the opportunity of working in the White House.
[Warner ignore Cecil and carries on walking past them down the hall, Cecil turns and looks at Fallows who chuckles and shrugs his shoulders]
Freddie Fallows: Come on. Here we go.
[as Cecil follows Fallows he notices a maid cleaning one of the bathroom floors]
Cecil Gaines: Ma'am, I'm Cecil Gaines. I'll be working with you here.
Freddie Fallows: Mr. Gaines, please don't do that. Come on.
Cecil Gaines: Yes, sir.
[Fallows shows Gaines the ways of being a butler at the White House]
Freddie Fallows: When lifting a plate, never scrape the bottom. Never listen or react to conversation. The room should feel as if…
Cecil Gaines: Empty…when I'm in it.
[later Cecil enters the staff area and comes across two other butler]
Carter Wilson: Hey, there he is! Heard you were coming. What's your name, my brother?
[Carter shakes hands with Cecil]
Cecil Gaines: Cecil. Cecil Gaines.
Carter Wilson: Cecil Gaines. Well, I'm Carter Wilson, the head butler. Don't worry about big Mo behind you, that brother will steal your wallet before you even know it.
[pointing to James, who's brushing his teeth in the bathroom]
Carter Wilson: This brother in the mirror over hear, his name's James Holloway. He's my second in command.
Cecil Gaines: James.
[Cecil walks up to James]
James Holloway: Jackie Robinson or Willie Mays?
Carter Wilson: Why don't you shake the man's hand first before you start asking him difficult questions like that?
James Holloway: Just want to know where the man's coming from.
[as he continues to brush his teeth, James turns and shakes Cecil's hand]
Cecil Gaines: Looks like the jury still out on that one.
James Holloway: Welcome. Fancy Freddie give you the tour yet?
Cecil Gaines: He did. Is the Dodgers still…still losing?
James Holloway: I might be able to answer that question if Carter over here stop running his nasty mouth.
Carter Wilson: Cut the shit and let's get to work.
[in the kitchen Carter, James and one of the maids watch as Cecil prepares the coffee tray for the President]
Cecil Gaines: Ready.
Carter Wilson: Lord help us.
[Cecil puts on his white gloves then holds out the milk jug to one of the chefs and he pours some milk into it]
Lorraine: Don't be nervous, man. Just go in and get to it.
[Cecil nods, then lifts the tray, as he goes to walk out of the kitchen Fallows stands in front of him]
Freddie Fallows: You hear nothing, you see nothing, you only serve.
[1957 – The Eisenhower Administration; Cecil enters the President's office with the coffee tray, Eisenhower is having a meeting with his Chief of Staff Sherman Adams and Attorney General Herbert Brownell]
Sherman Adams: Send federal troops to the South.
[Cecil places the tray in the corner of the room and starts pouring the coffee into the cups]
Herbert Brownell: It if comes to it, yes.
Dwight D. Eisenhower: I can't see any situation where I'd send federal troops to the South, ever. It could cause another Civil War.
Herbert Brownell: Sir, if the federal government doesn't enforce Brown then who will? The South must comply with the law.
Dwight D. Eisenhower: It's just gonna take some time to adjust, that's all.
Herbert Brownell: I understand, Mr. President. But if Faubus continues to block the Negro children, then what do we do? We must enforce the constitution.
[Cecil serves Eisenhower for the first time and places his coffee cup on his desk, Cecil then goes and stands in the corner of the room, looking nervous and breathing a sigh of relief]
Sherman Adams: Give Faubus more time, with a little persuading he'll back down. We just want to move slowly.
[after serving Eisenhower in his office, Cecil returns to the kitchen with a tray]
Carter Wilson: How did it go?
Cecil Gaines: I almost shit myself.
[Cecil walks off]
Carter Wilson: I dated a girl once, every time I hit on her she shit herself.
[Lorraine throws her dish towel at Carter]
Carter Wilson: What?
Lorraine: You got no sense.
Carter Wilson: Shut up.
Lorraine: You shut up.
Carter Wilson: I put a towel down.
[Charlie and Elroy are watching a scary movie on TV when Louis comes up behind them and scares them, Elroy throws some popcorn at Louis] [after turning off the TV, Louis places a book on top of the poster to cover the advertising of Mamie Till giving a speech about her son's murder but Cecil notices this] [at the White House, we see Eisenhower painting a portrait in his room when Cecil enters the room with a tray of food] [the White House staff watch Eisenhower on TV as he gives his speech about sending troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to execute federal law] [as they all run to the bus stop terminal at the station] [as they watch Louis saying goodbye to Charlie] Louis Gaines: Come on, Dad. [Cecil, Carter and James are in the White House kitchen kneading some dough] Richard Nixon: Let me ask you something in all candor. As members of the Negro community, what are your biggest concerns? [1960 – Fisk University, two girls walk down the steps of the University] [as Carol takes Louis to the meeting] [Lawson continues his meeting with the group of students] [back at Lawson's meeting the students do role play] [at the White House, the staff are all gathered in the kitchen after having served dinner to government officials, Fallows raises his glass of champagne] [Cecil attends Louis' sentence hearing at the court] [some time has passed, Cecil is still working at the White House; one night Gloria is sat with Gina and Howard outside their house] [we see the White House staff clearing the furniture and items from inside the White House] [1961 – The Kennedy Administration; the White House staff are lined up as they meet President John F. Kennedy, his wife Jacqueline and their children] [Kennedy starts walking down the line with Fallows beside him introducing their names] [one evening as Cecil and Gloria are lying in bed] Gloria Gaines: How pair of shoes does she have? [we see Cecil standing in the corner of the room as the Kennedy's and their guests listen to a private classical music being played for them] [one evening, Louis on a bus driving through Alabama with the Freedom Riders] [everyone on the bus continues to talk and laugh when one of the Riders notices a car bright lights shining ahead of them] [Cecil is sat in Caroline's bedroom reading to her out loud from the book 'Madeline'] [Cecil and Gloria watch news report about the Freedom Bus explosion]
Charlie Gaines (10): You dropped the popcorn all over the sofa.
Elroy: You're Dad's gonna kill…
[just then Cecil comes home from finishing his day at work at the White House]
Charlie Gaines (10): Hey, Dad.
Cecil Gaines: Hey.
Elroy: Hi, Mr. Gaines.
Louis Gaines: Hey, Dad.
Cecil Gaines: Hey, Elroy. Louis, I told you about letting those kids watch that show. It's too scary, they're too young for it. Turn it off.
[Cecil walks into the kitchen]
Cecil Gaines: Where's your Mom at?
Elroy: Miss Gloria tried staying up, but she went to sleep.
[Cecil walks back into the living room]
Cecil Gaines: Elroy, nobody asked you nothin'. Take your butt home before your Mama come up in here lookin' for you.
Louis Gaines: Come on, Dad.
Cecil Gaines: No, turn it off.
[Elroy reluctantly rises from the couch and leaves]
Elroy: Bye.
[Louis turns off the TV and Charlie, looking annoyed, rises from the couch and starts stomping up the stairs]
Cecil Gaines: Don't go stomping up the stair and wake your Mama up.
Cecil Gaines: What is that? Is that that Mamie Till stuff?
Louis Gaines: I wanna go to this.
Cecil Gaines: Absolutely not.
Louis Gaines: How come?
Cecil Gaines: Ain't no good can come of that.
Louis Gaines: Dad, you heard what Mama said.
Cecil Gaines: That mess right there happened down South.
Louis Gaines: This could have been me.
Cecil Gaines: It happened down South. I got out of there so we could have us a better life. Right now I'm working for the white man, make things better for us. And not just any white man, either.
[pointing to the light switch]
Cecil Gaines: The lights off, go to bed.
[Cecil starts walking up the stairs]
Cecil Gaines: I have your chicken soup, Mr. President.
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Just set it on the table, Cecil.
Cecil Gaines: Yes, sir.
[Cecil places the tray on the table behind Eisenhower and notices his painting]
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Did you ever complete school, Cecil?
Cecil Gaines: I didn't go to school, Mr. President. I grew up on a cotton farm.
Dwight D. Eisenhower: I grew up on a farm. Do you have any children?
Cecil Gaines: Yes, I have two sons.
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Do they go to an all colored school?
Cecil Gaines: Yes, sir, they do.
[just then Adams enters the room]
Dwight D. Eisenhower: What is it?
Sherman Adams: State car just blocked up all the colored kids again.
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Faubus promised me the guards would escort the kids in.
Sherman Adams: Governor Faubus lied, Mr. President.
Dwight D. Eisenhower: What is wrong with him? Why is he forcing me to do this?
[Adams looks at Cecil as if to say 'why are you still here?', Cecil bows]
Cecil Gaines: Yes, sir.
[Cecil goes to leave the room]
Sherman Adams: Our next move needs to be bold and swift.
[Cecil gives Eisenhower and Adams one last look before closing the door]
Dwight D. Eisenhower: I have today issued an executive order, directing the use of troops under federal authority, to aid in the execution of federal law at Little Rock, Arkansas. This became necessary…
Cecil Gaines: [voice over] When the president sent those troops down to Little Rock, is the first time I ever seen a white man stick his neck out for us. I told Louis that the President was gonna make everything better for us.
[we see the Gaines family entering their house after attending Louis' high school graduation]
Gloria Gaines: All graduations are long. She was so nosy. I'm gonna make some potato salad.
Cecil Gaines: [voice over] Now I can that I knew what I was talking about.
[to Louis]
Gloria Gaines: That was wonderful, I'm so proud of you.
Louis Gaines: Thanks, Mama.
[Gloria turns and stars walking into the kitchen with Charlie following behind her]
Charlie Gaines (10): That hat looked stupid.
Louis Gaines: Your face looks stupid.
[Louis turns to look at Cecil]
Cecil Gaines: Proud of you too.
Louis Gaines: Dad, if you still want…
[from the kitchen]
Gloria Gaines: Don't start something in there.
[to Cecil]
Louis Gaines: Did you see one white kid in my school?
[Louis turns and starts walking up the stairs; later we see Cecil holding a tray of cookies for school kids as they get shown around the White House]
Cecil Gaines: [voice over] Why couldn't Louis see that the President made things better for us?
Gloria Gaines: Boy, I told you we was gonna be late!
[as they reach the bus]
Cecil Gaines: Wait a sec. Wait, wait, wait!
Louis Gaines: What?
Cecil Gaines: You're not gonna say goodbye? Fisk can wait.
[there's a moment's pause as Louis looks at Cecil and Gloria, who's crying]
Cecil Gaines: Tennessee is a long ways away.
Louis Gaines: Fisk is a really good school, Dad.
Cecil Gaines: You can change your mind and go to Howell.
Gloria Gaines: I cannot believe you are still talking about Howell University. He's going to Fisk!
Cecil Gaines: I know, I know. It's just…it's just so far away, that's all.
Louis Gaines: That's the point.
Cecil Gaines: What's the point?
[Louis smiles and turns to Gloria]
Gloria Gaines: Give me a cigarette and don't tell me you don't smoke.
Louis Gaines: I don't have one.
[to Charlie]
Louis Gaines: Come here.
[Louis puts one arm around Charlie's neck]
Louis Gaines: You know you wanna cry.
Charlie Gaines (10): Not because of you.
[Louis laughs and holds on to Charlie]
Louis Gaines: Look under your mattress, I left you something.
Cecil Gaines: I can't protect him down South.
Gloria Gaines: The South has changed, Cecil. The South ain't what it was when you was there.
[to Louis]
Charlie Gaines (10): I'm too young for Playboy.
[calling out to Gloria]
Charlie Gaines (10): Ma, Louis is leaving me his filthy magazines.
[Gloria lightly slaps Charlie in the face; to Louis]
Gloria Gaines: Stop winding up your brother.
Cecil Gaines: Why you slapping him, he's the one with the magazines?
[Louis embraces Gloria]
Louis Gaines: I love you, mother.
Gloria Gaines: I love you, son. I love you, Louis. I made you ham sandwich.
Louis Gaines: Thanks, Mom.
[Gloria touches his face briefly before moving aside]
Cecil Gaines: Okay.
[Cecil walks over to Louis and gives Louis' bag to the bus driver, there's an awkward silence]
Cecil Gaines: You're the first.
Louis Gaines: I know.
Cecil Gaines: I'm really proud of you.
Louis Gaines: I've gotta go now.
[there's another awkward silence as they look at each other, Louis goes to take a step forward]
Louis Gaines: I've gotta…
[Cecil extends his hand out to Louis and they shake hands then Louis starts walking towards the bus]
Cecil Gaines: If you need anything, call me.
Louis Gaines: Alright.
Cecil Gaines: Alright?
[as Louis steps onto the bus he turns to look at Gloria one last time]
Louis Gaines: Bye, Mama.
[Gloria looks at him tearfully]
Gloria Gaines: Bye, Louis.
[Louis steps further into the bus and the doors close, Cecil joins Gloria and puts his arm around her]
Cecil Gaines: It's alright.
[Cecil gives one last wave to Louis as they watch driving off]
Carter Wilson: Remind me again why we're doing this, please, somebody? Tell me? That look like a mugging to me, that's what that looks like.
James Holloway: This is the art of French baking.
Carter Wilson: Negro, please. Art of French baking! This is absolutely nothing, is what this is, I don't…
[to Cecil]
James Holloway: It's so simple.
Carter Wilson: You tell me to play with it, I'll play with it. Play with it like this.
[he starts squeezing his and slapping his dough]
Carter Wilson: It won't be good if it had no…no nipple on it.
[Cecil smiles]
Cecil Gaines: Come on, man.
Carter Wilson: That's how you play it, you jiggle it, you shake it.
James Holloway: Look at this fool.
[at that moment Vice President Richard Nixon walks into the kitchen, Carter notices first]
Carter Wilson: Good evening, Mr. Vice President.
Richard Nixon: That looks like a tasty treat.
Carter Wilson: Yes, sir.
Richard Nixon: I brought you all something.
[he takes out three Nixon campaign badges from his pocket and gives one to Cecil, James and Carter]
Cecil Gaines: Thank you, Mr. Vice President.
Richard Nixon: I don't wanna say anything negative about that Kennedy boy, I'm sure he's a real nice fella, but do you really want that spoiled rich son of a bitch fuck to be your next President?
[there's a moments awkward silence]
Richard Nixon: Think about it.
[he looks at all three for a moment, Cecil then awkwardly holds up his badge]
Cecil Gaines: We'll cheer for you, Mr. Vice President.
Richard Nixon: Thank you, Cecil.
[Cecil, Jame and Carter don't reply and try to continue kneading their dough]
Richard Nixon: Now, come on now, boys. Don't be shy.
[James looks at the other two]
Richard Nixon: Holloway, come on.
James Holloway: Well, since you asked, sir.
Richard Nixon: I did.
James Holloway: The colored help gets paid almost forty percent less than then white help.
Richard Nixon: Is that right?
James Holloway: Yes, sir.
Richard Nixon: Mm.
James Holloway: And it's very difficult for the colored staff to be promoted.
Richard Nixon: Well, I'll tell you what. When I'm President, I'm gonna looking to getting you boys the raises and promotions you deserve.
James Holloway: That…that would be swell, sir.
Richard Nixon: You've got my word on that.
James Holloway: Thank you, sir.
Richard Nixon: Now, you tell your people to vote for me and that's exactly what's gonna happen.
[he throws a Nixon badge on the work table]
Richard Nixon: Give that to somebody.
[he looks at all three and smiles at them, he takes a pastry from the tray, turns and walks out of the kitchen]
Olivia: What do you mean you don't wanna date nobody? After all these guys that come on to you?
Carol Hammie: Girl, please.
[referring to a boy that walks past them]
Olivia: Like that one?
Carol Hammie: I'm talking about the meeting. Now come on, tell me what happened?
[Olivia starts explaining to Carol as they walk away; later Louis sees Carol sitting on some steps inside the University]
Louis Gaines: Hey.
Carol Hammie: You looking for love, boy?
[Louis looks at her not understanding her meaning]
Carol Hammie: That's what we call the Lawson Workshop, the Love School. Is that what you're looking for?
Louis Gaines: That's why I came to Fisk.
Carol Hammie: Me too.
[Carol rises and extends her hand to Louis]
Carol Hammie: I'm Carol Hammie.
Louis Gaines: Louis Gaines.
[they shake hands]
Carol Hammie: Come on, follow me.
[she starts walking up the stair and Louise follows her]
Carol Hammie: You're a good country boy, ain't ya?
Carol Hammie: He's a doctor. What does your Dad do?
Louis Gaines: He's in politics.
[they enter the meeting room which is being held in an old basement]
Carol Hammie: You're gonna need help finding this place anyway.
[they walk into the room as James Lawson is giving his speech to the group members]
James Lawson: …this requires time, dedication and discipline and focus. And we are measuring out accomplishment in waves. Right? This is not a fly-by-night affair, this doesn't happen over a week. This requires a fierce discipline, which is what we've been discussing. How do you measure these things? We go back and we look at somebody like Gandhi. Together we're gonna study and examine Gandhi's techniques, what has been so effective in South Africa, so effective in India, for his own people and others, and we're gonna employ it right here, in Nashville. So we're gonna form an army, you and I. This army has one weapon and that weapon is love. Now I'm of the…
[Carol raises her hand to ask a question]
James Lawson: Yes?
Carol Hammie: If our only weapon is love, and their weapons are weapons, I mean, isn't that dangerous?
James Lawson: Oh, you can be killed. Anybody's uncomfortable with that, you know where the door is. I understand that sounds provocative, but it's true.
[he pauses for a moment and no one leaves]
James Lawson: Alright, kids. It's show time.
James Lawson: Gandhi has demonstrated for us that a brown man in his native land, or anywhere that he's being oppressed, can pull himself out of segregation with patience, with persistence, with intelligence and thought, with discipline, and a bit of sense of humor.
[at the same time we see a group of students, including Louis and Carol, going to a diner and sitting in the whites section]
Diner Waitress: You know y'all can't sit here.
Louis Gaines: We would like to be served, please.
James Lawson: [voice over] This is unprecedented what we're talking about, but it needs a patience that none of us have ever seen.
Diner Waitress: You can order food in the colored section, but I'm not gonna be serving you here.
[we see Lawson back at the meeting]
James Lawson: We are organized, we have a leader with every group, we have lookouts with pocket change and the local phone numbers for ambulances ready. And when one wave comes off that launch watch what follows, a whole other wave of Negro students sitting right there at lunch blowing their mind.
[back at the diner, the group of students remain sitting at the whites section]
Louis Gaines: We would like to be served, please.
James Lawson: [voice over] Now, who wants to role play?
Diner Waitress: Jim, we need your help here.
[a white man approaches the group of students]
Male Diner Patron: Now, you all know you're not supposed to sit there.
James Lawson: Attack.
[one group of students starts pushing the other group to get out of their seats]
James Lawson: This is an experiment so use everything t to break their spirit. Use the language, we need to hear nigger coming out of your mouth. I need here it.
White Male Student: I don't feel comfortable saying that.
James Lawson: You came here to get yourself prepared and to get her prepared. So let me hear it, now!
[the white male student hesitates for a moment before saying]
White Male Student: Nigger!
James Lawson: Louder. Say the words like you mean it.
White Male Student: Nigger!
James Lawson: Louder.
[he shouts to the African American female student]
White Male Student: You are a nigger!
[back at the diner, a female white patron walks up to the group of students]
Female Diner Patron: You need to be sitting in the colored sitting, this is not for you. You cannot be served here.
Male Diner Patron: You need to do as you're told and sit in your place!
[at the meeting the role play experiment continues as the white male student tries to make the African American female student out of her seat]
White Male Student: You are a nigger!
James Lawson: Make her believe it.
White Male Student: You're a nigger!
[back at the diner]
Female Diner Patron: You know that's where the colored people sit. You see these people over here, they're in their section over here.
[at the same time we see Lawson's role play experiment continue before going back to the diner]
Female Diner Patron: You want us to shop in this establishment, make 'em go!
[to her husband]
Female Diner Patron: Come on, Robert. Let's go.
[the woman leaves with her husband, eventually all the diner patrons leave the diner with only the students left still sat in the whites section; later a group of white people break into the diner and start abusing and attacking the students until the students are finally arrested and taken away by the police]
Freddie Fallows: To serving our country.
[everyone else raises their glass]
Service Staff: To serving our country.
[as everyone is drinking, Carter, James and Cecil notice the news on the TV showing the group of students in Nashville being arrested, Cecil sees Louis in the group, Cecil looking shocked and upset leaves]
Judge: You're all sentenced to thirty days in the county jail. Bailer, get these niggers out of here.
[Cecil rises and walks out of the court, Louis sees him from the corner of his eye, outside the courtroom Cecil drinks some water from the colored section of the water fountain, Louis walks up to Cecil]
Louis Gaines: Somethin' special's goin' on down here, Dad.
Cecil Gaines: What's so special about another colored man in jail? What are you doing with my hard earned money? Are you even in school?
Louis Gaines: I'm trying to change the ways Negro's are treated.
Cecil Gaines: You broke the law. That judge just sentenced you to thirty days in the county workhouse. You could get killed.
Louis Gaines: If I can't sit at any lunch counter I want, then I might as well be dead. We're fighting for our rights!
Cecil Gaines: Rights! Boy, were trying to survive!
Louis Gaines: We're trying to change the nation's consciousness toward the American Negro.
Cecil Gaines: The postcards you've been sending me…you're a damn liar!
Louis Gaines: I have been to school!
Cecil Gaines: Hey!
[Cecil grabs hold of Louis' collar and pushes him against the wall in anger]
Cecil Gaines: Who do you think you're talkin' to? I brought you into this world, I can take you out of it!
Gina: Y'all been able to talk to him?
Gloria Gaines: Talk to who?
Gina: Louis.
Gloria Gaines: Yeah, we talk to him. Says he joined something called the Freedom Riders, whatever the hell that's supposed to mean.
Gina: You gonna see him?
Gloria Gaines: I've been fixin' to tryin' to see him. Every time I do, Cecil get all riled up, so I don't know when that's gonna happen.
Howard: Fixin' to tryin', see that's the problem. You gotta stop tryin' and you just gotta do it. He take you to the White House yet?
Gloria Gaines: No. Cecil say we're going soon.
Howard: Cecil say, Cecil say… Four years, that makes you a little bit gullible, darlin'.
Gina: I don't understand. I don't understand why he can't get the President to do somethin'.
Howard: You see, Gina, that's your problem You just say stupid stuff. The President got more to do than to be thinkin' about Louis' foolishness.
Gina: You know, why don't you just shut up? You're just a mess!
[Gina chuckles]
Gina: Be nice!
Howard: Who told you to tell me to shut up?
Gina: Well…
Howard: Go get me a drink, I want some scotch. Well, I personally think, Louis gonna get every one of us killed.
[Gina gets up and goes inside to get Howard a drink]
Howard: He crazy, like his Mama.
[Gloria rises and walks over to the door]
Howard: I meant it in a good way.
[Gloria gives Howard a dirty look, before going inside]
Howard: I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Get back over here! You get your ass…
[Howard rises and follows Gloria inside the house]
Cecil Gaines: [voice over] The President lives at the White House until the moment the next one is sworn in. So the staff has exactly two hours during the inauguration ceremony to move the whole the old President out and move the new one in.
Carter Wilson: They say this new white boy is smooth.
Cecil Gaines: I just need to get my butt home to Gloria, cause these hours are killing us.
Carter Wilson: How's your boy doing Cecil?
Freddie Fallows: Gentlemen, the President's arriving.
[Kennedy and Jaqueline enter with their young daughter Caroline and baby John Jr.]
Jacqueline Kennedy: Where shall I start?
John F. Kennedy: I'm not sure. This end?
White House Staff: Right this way, Mr. President.
[Kennedy walks over to the line of butlers]
John F. Kennedy: Hello everyone.
Staff: Mr. President.
John F. Kennedy: Uh…I am thrilled to be working with all of you over the next four years.
Jacqueline Kennedy: Eight years, John.
John F. Kennedy: Well, you see who wears the pants around here.
[the staff laugh]
John F. Kennedy: I'm not gonna remember any of your names, but I'm gonna try.
Freddie Fallows: Jessica.
John F. Kennedy: Jessica.
[to Fallows as he shakes Jessica's hand]
John F. Kennedy: It's a good thing you're here, cause I'm gonna forget.
Freddie Fallows: This is Lorraine.
[Kennedy shakes her hand]
John F. Kennedy: Good to meet you.
Freddie Fallows: James.
James Holloway: Mr. President.
[they shake hands]
John F. Kennedy: James.
Freddie Fallows: Carter.
Carter Wilson: Pleasure, Mr. President.
[they shake hands]
John F. Kennedy: Carter
Freddie Fallows: This is Cecil.
Cecil Gaines: Pleasure to meet you, Mr. President.
John F. Kennedy: How are you?
[they shake hands and Kennedy moves down the line]
Cecil Gaines: Mrs. Kennedy.
[to the next member of staff]
John F. Kennedy: How are you?
[just then Caroline drops her doll and Cecil picks it up for her]
Cecil Gaines: Got her, she's alright.
[he hands the doll to Caroline and she smiles at him]
Cecil Gaines: Pleasure to meet you, Miss Caroline.
Cecil Gaines: I said a prayer for you
[Gloria tries to get closer to him]
Cecil Gaines: Stop. Okay? Stop.
[referring to the book in Cecil's hand]
Gloria Gaines: What's that?
Cecil Gaines: Baby, that's Gin. I can smell it from here.
Gloria Gaines: It's Addison's disease.
Cecil Gaines: Gloria, stop it. Will you stop? Did you take Charlie to the dentist today?
[Gloria, looking drunk, gets out of bed and walks over to her dressing table]
Gloria Gaines: Is that the way to talk to someone with Addison's disease?
[she sits at her dressing table and starts putting on lipstick]
Gloria Gaines: No, I did not take Charlie to the dentist today. I don't know why you're asking me about it for, you're never home. Now you gonna act like you gonna take Charlie to the dentist? You ain't never here, I don't know how you gonna take him, his teeth fall out waitin' on you to take him.
Cecil Gaines: Charlie's a big boy. I'll take him tomorrow.
[Cecil turns off his bedside light and turns to prepare to sleep]
[Cecil doesn't reply prepares to lie down to go to sleep]
Gloria Gaines: I said how many pairs of shoes does Ms Jackie Kennedy have?
Cecil Gaines: How the hell do I know!
Gloria Gaines: You're in that old White House day and night, thought you knew everything.
[she continues applying her lipstick]
Gloria Gaines: Come in here tryin' to tell me what to do. Worried about me drinkin', you ought to be worried about your house. My boy's in jail, Cecil. My boy is in jail and you can't come home. You…you don't see him here trying to talk to you. I bet you wish I spoke French, just like Jackie. Jackie Kennedy. Que sera sera. You like that? You like the way she talk?
[Cecil doesn't reply and just lies in bed staring ahead]
Gloria Gaines: Cecil, you hear me talkin' to you? You ain't asleep.
James Holloway: Bobby told the President they shouldn't worry about the Negro citizens, poles show the U.S. does not support civil rights.
[at the same time we see Carter getting changed in the staff changing room]
Carter Wilson: Told you that white boy was smooth. I know too smooth for my money.
[we see Kennedy as he listens to the music; then it's back to the changing room]
Carter Wilson: Hey, Cecil. How's your boy doing?
Cecil Gaines: Out of jail. Says he's back in school, but I think he's doing that Freedom Rider thing.
James Holloway: How's Gloria doing with her drinking?
Cecil Gaines: She's hanging.
Carter Wilson: They say that cat that's playin' is a big deal.
James Holloway: Pablo Casals, world famous.
Cecil Gaines: Of course he's world famous. You think Ms Kennedy is gonna have uh…some back woods country fiddler here playing out there for them?
James Holloway: Nah.
Cecil Gaines: Why don't you start a band, maybe you can go out there too? You know, in fact, let's all start a band. I'll play the bongos. What about you?
Carter Wilson: I play a mean uh…skin flute.
[Cecil playfully taps on his locker with his hands]
James Holloway: Casals is a righteous soul, he refuses to play in any country that recognizes Franco's regime.
Carter Wilson: Who's Franco?
[there's a moment's pause]
James Holloway: Forget it, man.
Carter Wilson: Huh?
James Holloway: Forget it. You're ignorant.
Louis Gaines: Carol, are you tired?
Carol Hammie: You just want me to put my head on your shoulder.
Louis Gaines: What's wrong with that?
Carol Hammie: I'm not putting my head on your shoulder.
Louis Gaines: You can.
[we see a mixture of white and African American's on the bus talking and laughing]
Freedom Bus Journalist: You ever been on a Freedom Bus before?
Olivia: No, it's my first time.
Freedom Bus Journalist: No. How's your boyfriend feel about that?
[Olivia laughs]
Olivia: My boyfriend?
Freedom Bus Journalist: Yeah.
[Olivia laughs again]
Freedom Bus Journalist: This must upset him, right? You being on this bus down here.
Olivia: I don't have a boyfriend.
Freedom Bus Journalist: You don't have a boyfriend!
Freedom Bus Rider: Louis, what is that?
[as the bus drives towards the light they realize what it is, a large cross with lights all around it]
Freedom Bus Journalist: It's a cross, it's a cross.
Louis Gaines: Driver, turn! Turn the bus!
[as the bus goes to turn a truck with another large cross comes up behind their bus and blocks them]
Louis Gaines: Shit!
[suddenly they are ambushed by the Ku Klux Klan, they begin yelling obscenities and spitting at the windows, they start shaking the bus and breaking the windows, Louis then notices one of the Ku Klux Klan holding a petrol bomb in his hand]
Louis Gaines: Oh, my God. Everybody out!
[everyone starts running out of the bus when the petrol bomb is thrown into the bus, we then see a photo of what's left of the bust after it had exploded]
Cecil Gaines: In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines. The smallest one was Madeline.
Caroline Kennedy: Like Caroline!
Cecil Gaines: Mm-hmm.
[continues reading from the book]
Cecil Gaines: She was not afraid of mice.
Caroline Kennedy: Why do people ride on the Freedom Bus?
[Cecil doesn't know how to reply]
Caroline Kennedy: Uncle Bobby told my Daddy that the Freedom Bus exploded today.
Cecil Gaines: [voice over] I didn't know if my boy was dead or alive.
Voice of Victim on News: As I got off the bus a man came up to me and I'm coughing and struggling, he said, "Boy, are you alright?." As I nod my head and the next thing I knew I was on the ground, he had hit me with a baseball bat.
[at that moment their phone rings and Cecil picks up the phone]
Cecil Gaines: Hello?
Louis Gaines: Hi, Dad. I'm in Mississippi.
[we see Louis is making his call from jail]
Cecil Gaines: I thought you was in Alabama.
Louis Gaines: We spent two weeks in jail there, now we're in Mississippi.
Cecil Gaines: I want you to listen to me, Louis. I want you to come home. I know we ain't seeing eye to eye, but your Mama, she wants you home.
Louis Gaines: They're keeping me.
Cecil Gaines: How long?
[to Cecil]
Gloria Gaines: What is it?
Louis Gaines: I don't know. They say three months until I can get out. I'm gonna take another ride.
Cecil Gaines: What are you talking about?
[to Cecil]
Gloria Gaines: What's he sayin'?
Cecil Gaines: What are you talking about?
[to Cecil]
Gloria Gaines: Let me talk to him. Give me that phone.
[Gloria picks up the other phone and listens in]
Louis Gaines: It is my right to ride that bus, that is my legal right. I want to exercise my rights as an American citizen.
Gloria Gaines: American citizen? What you talkin' about? You know what they're gonna do to you? They're gonna lynch you, and they're gonna throw your little ass in the river. They're gonna kill you.
Louis Gaines: Ma, then they're just gonna have to kill me.
[after turning off the TV, Louis places a book on top of the poster to cover the advertising of Mamie Till giving a speech about her son's murder but Cecil notices this]
[at the White House, we see Eisenhower painting a portrait in his room when Cecil enters the room with a tray of food]
[the White House staff watch Eisenhower on TV as he gives his speech about sending troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to execute federal law]
[as they all run to the bus stop terminal at the station]
[as they watch Louis saying goodbye to Charlie]
Louis Gaines: Come on, Dad.
[Cecil, Carter and James are in the White House kitchen kneading some dough]
Richard Nixon: Let me ask you something in all candor. As members of the Negro community, what are your biggest concerns?
[1960 – Fisk University, two girls walk down the steps of the University]
[as Carol takes Louis to the meeting]
[Lawson continues his meeting with the group of students]
[back at Lawson's meeting the students do role play]
[at the White House, the staff are all gathered in the kitchen after having served dinner to government officials, Fallows raises his glass of champagne]
[Cecil attends Louis' sentence hearing at the court]
[some time has passed, Cecil is still working at the White House; one night Gloria is sat with Gina and Howard outside their house]
[we see the White House staff clearing the furniture and items from inside the White House]
[1961 – The Kennedy Administration; the White House staff are lined up as they meet President John F. Kennedy, his wife Jacqueline and their children]
[Kennedy starts walking down the line with Fallows beside him introducing their names]
[one evening as Cecil and Gloria are lying in bed]
Gloria Gaines: How pair of shoes does she have?
[we see Cecil standing in the corner of the room as the Kennedy's and their guests listen to a private classical music being played for them]
[one evening, Louis on a bus driving through Alabama with the Freedom Riders]
[everyone on the bus continues to talk and laugh when one of the Riders notices a car bright lights shining ahead of them]
[Cecil is sat in Caroline's bedroom reading to her out loud from the book 'Madeline']
[Cecil and Gloria watch news report about the Freedom Bus explosion]
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I'll be traveling for five weeks--four of them at a Goethe Institute in Germany. I don't have electronics, except for my low-tech cheapie cell phone, which I can't use in Europe. Therefore I depend on public computers for communication.
I know it's not safe to access my checking account on a public computer, so I thought I'd have my sister (at home) look at my checking account to see if there's anything I should know about.
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Safe way to check my bank account on public computers in Germany?
I'll be traveling for five weeks--four of them at a Goethe Institute in Germany. I don't have electronics, except for my low-tech cheapie cell phone, which I can't use in Europe. Therefore I depend on public computers for communication.
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We're all vulnerable to hackers and thieves, even at home, so I suggest you use both tactics, have your sister keep an eye on things and just take a chance when you must. The only losses I've suffered have been from credit card fraud at home and never on the road when I used public computers during years of travel. Sign out and close the browser windows after accessing an account and hope for the best because you'll almost surely be fine. Just have what you need in the accounts you access and if the worst happens, losses will be limited by that. But I believe it's very unlikely anything bad will happen.
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If you use a public computer, you're trusting the person who is in charge of it. You're also trusting that that person is smart enough to keep other people from installing keyloggers or even getting the computer infected accidentally.
Some public computers are setup in a way that means every time they reboot, everything from the last user is completely erased (rather, Windows is just restored to exactly the way it was before the last user got on), so that should be pretty safe. If it's just a random computer at some small B&B, it's less likely to be so secure. I was at a 4-star German hotel and used their public computer to print my boarding pass - and their seemed to be setup in that way that everything got erased at next boot, so in an emergency I'd probably use a computer like that. But someone's random Windows computer they let people use? No way.
Either way, you may need to let your bank know you will be accessing your accounts in this way. They can tell the computer accessing their site is located in Germany not in the US, so they should automatically put the shields up and ask you more security questions, etc. to prevent some hacker in Germany from trying to break in. They could simply disable your account if they detect suspicious access.
Personally, I'd rely on your sister - or buy a netbook or tablet to take with you.
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couple of tips here
The only 100% way to guarantee security is to ask yourself if you can live without accessing your online account for a few weeks. Hopefully, the answer is yes.
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Ultimately, getting a netbook and more recently a tablet is what I did. It doesn't likely solve things absolutely but I'm sure it's safer and certainly more convenient. I suggest, as Andrew also did, you do the same. Free wifi is a very common thing now, everywhere.
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Andrew, what do you think about a VPN? Not sure where I heard about it, but looks like a possibility.
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WiFi is also vulnerable though. It is easy for someone to set up a hotspot. It may look right, but they can be logging everything you do.
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Of course wifi is vulnerable. Everything is vulnerable to one extent or the other. Staying in bed at home isn't perfectly safe either, but we make choices and take our chances. It's called living. Try to minimize the risk, as we perceive it, then forget it and have fun.
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Before I had a tablet, and when public wifi wasn't widespread here in Italy, I often used public computers. I carried a USB key that had an executable version of Firefox and Thunderbird, so that I didn't have to use any software installed on the public computer.
Of course, these measures won't eliminate all risk. You might also want to change your password when you get back home. Also, set up notifications by your bank whenever any operation over a certain amount takes place.
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If you do use a browser on a public computer, be sure to clear all cookies before you exit the browser.
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VPN is the most secure way to connect to sensitive websites when using your own device, but trying to connect to a VPN from a public computer would be impractical and probably self-defeating. The biggest danger on a public computer is a keylogger that could log your passwords. Connecting to a VPN only secures your network, not the computer.
On my recent trip to Germany, traveling with my netbook, I was able to connect to my VPN through all the WiFi networks I used except one - then I was still able to do so using my phone's hotspot instead of the hotel's WiFi. Even this wasn't 100% secure, as the recent Heartbleed OpenSSL bug confirms, but it would secure the WiFi itself for everything I do.
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I carry a small laptop, a MacBook Air, and I use a personal VPN, actually the one Liz cites above, witopia. I've used it all over the world without a problem. I wouldn't check bank and credit card and brokerage accounts without it.
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Thanks for the answers.I'd love it if someone would buy me a MacBook Air or a Tablet and just give it to me. That's the only way I'll ever get those kinds of electronics. I'm retired and lazy, so I don't usually need them.
I think my best deal is to have my sister check my account.
I think sofarsogood has the right idea. I can live without checking my account for five weeks.
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I use the opposite approach and check my accounts frequently while away (using a tablet and wifi). Banking regulations here in Canada protect me if their security is ever breached so I keep a close eye on my accounts and will know to notify my bank or credit card provider if I see a problem. Yes, it would be a big nuisance if something happened while I'm away, but it could easily be a preauthorized payment that didn't go through or a NSF cheque that I had forgotten I'd written, or an unexpectedly high exchange rate on a credit card transaction.. any number of things that I would prefer to know about and take care of right away.
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Which Goethe-Institut are you going to?
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Peg, I never check my bank account while I travel, usually for 4 or 5 weeks at a time. I make sure I have an adequate balance in the checking account for the automatic payments that will be due. Before I leave I pay, and sometimes pre-pay, bills that will be due. Then I pack my bag and my travel credit cards, get on the plane and forget about banks and bills. All of it will be waiting for me when I get home.
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You can buy an iPad mini, 16 GB, wifi only, on Amazon for $289, less than that on eBay, and even less used. Minimal exertion required.
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I saw a decent netbook on sale today for under $200 - but it sounds like Peg just doesn't want to buy one. Hey, I understand - some people just aren't "gadget" people.
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Larry Johnson, Commie Pinko Guy, Raven Row, Koenig Books, 2015
Edited by Bruce Hainley, Commie Pinko Guy is the first European monograph devoted to the photo-based work of artist Larry Johnson (born 1959, Long Beach, California).
Alongside numerous colour illustrations of Johnson's artworks spanning his career from the early 1980s to the present, the book also includes images specially selected by the artist from his personal archives and other sources. Among these are photographs by Mel Roberts and from the Athletic Model Guild. This rich visual selection provides a unique perspective on Johnson's personal connections to queer history, the city of Los Angeles – where he has lived all his life – and to American politics.
With essays by Morgan Fisher, Bruce Hainley, Antony Hudek, Wayne Koestenbaum and Lisa Lapinski, as well as reprints of texts by Pleasant Gehman, James McCourt, Boyd McDonald and Duncan Smith.


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Franklin, WI (November 15, 2005) ¿ DHW Enterprise LLC is proud to announce that the long awaited game Supercross The Home Version¿ is now available for purchase. 'As of Tuesday the games are rolling of the assembly line and are shipping out to retailers" said Douglas Hein President of DWH Enterprise LLC.
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Supercross The Home Version is manufactured by DWH Enterprise located in Franklin, WI and is a copyrighted and trademarked product. For more information please visit www.dwhenterprise.com or contact Douglas Hein @ 414-426-3684


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