A.K. Quotes in Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)

Ashtray: [about Dashiki] She wants me.

Loc Dog: Why you keep wasting your time with that trick? Tellin' you, you need someone with some class. Someone you can take home to step-mama. You know what I'm trying to say? Get yourself a real woman.

[he looks across the yard at a woman who is guzzling an entire forty]

Loc Dog: A real woman. Hey, Tray, you see that bitch over there?

Ashtray: I see her.

Loc Dog: Now, *that's* a lady. I bet you I can get her number.

Ashtray: Nigga, you ain't getting nobody's number.

Loc Dog: Fool, watch me.

[walks over to the woman and smiles at her]

Loc Dog: Hey, sweetheart.

[pulls his gun out of his waistband and points it at her head]

Loc Dog: Break you'self! Gimme your goddamn number! Come on! Hurry up! Come on!

[she frantically writes her number down and gives it to him; he lowers his gun]

Loc Dog: Cool, cool, cool. So, um, I'm gonna give you a call about 5:00 all right?

[when she doesn't respond, he points the gun at her head again]

Loc Dog: I said, all right?

A.K.: Y-Y-Yeah, yeah.

Loc Dog: All right, sweetheart. Take care of yourself, all right?

[he walks away and holds up the number so Ashtray can see it]

Loc Dog: I told you I'd get her number!

A.K.: You know, in my country there is a saying: "If you want to reach the sky, fuck a duck and try to fly".

A.K.: When I die, I'm going to go straight to Heaven. And you are going to ask me why. Did I pray enough? No. Did I share enough? Not really. Was I humble enough? Definantly not. So what makes you so sure you're going straight to Heaven, you ask. And I will tell you: because I told the truth.

A.K.: Only when you eat a lemon do you appreciate what sugar is. Life is a paradox. But is it really? Is the contradictions in and around us really a form of dissonance, or just another word for "accord" in a language we are yet to discover? A language we are yet to learn. A language we have been deprived of. We live in a mistaken world, and it doesn't have to be so. You can be an academic and come to this realization by reading books, or you can discover this new rebel intelligence by waking up in your own vomit. Either way, you cannot lose. Without filth, there can be no wisdom. Without darkness, no light.

A.K.: There is duality in everything.But perhaps I should ask myself this question: Am I consciously or unconsciously, actively or passively,collaborating at this very moment with some behavior that is destined to wreak havoc on another human being?

A.K.: Humanity seems to be divided into two categories. People trying to be good and people trying to be bad, but personally I don't see so much difference.If you spend your whole life as a saint, eventually you will crave the opposite and the filth will appear as an oasis in the desert but if you spend your life in the gutter, sooner or later you will be searching for wisdom. Like a pig sniffing for truffles.