Jungle Fever Quotes with Sound Clips

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Audio quotes from Jungle Fever (1991 film written, produced and directed by Spike Lee).

Actors: Wesley Snipes (Flipper Purify), Spike Lee (Cyrus), Annabella Sciorra (Angie Tucci)

5 more actors, Ossie Davis (The Good Reverend Doctor Purify), Ruby Dee (Lucinda Purify), Samuel L. Jackson (Gator), Anthony Quinn (Lou Carbone), John Turturro (Paulie Carbone)

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1 Every day I see you reading. What's with this reading? Some guy makes up some story... _ 'em! It's a waste of time.
2 God, if your mother was alive, she'd... she'd turn over in her grave!

— Lou Carbone (Anthony Quinn)

3 Just cos I don't look like that - tall, blond, blue eyes, that don't mean I don't feel like that.

— (Michael Badalucco)

4 Besides, marriage today is a joke. People get married, divorced, married. All they think marriage is for is humping. They don't know the duties, wifely duties.

— Lou Carbone (Anthony Quinn)

5 I swear 'fore God and four more white people, this is the very last time, I swear!

— Gator (Samuel L. Jackson)

6 She put it in your face, but you refused. Cos you are strong. You're a strong black man. -Strong black man who... I threw her on the table.

— Flipper Purify (Wesley Snipes), Cyrus (Spike Lee)

7 She's Italian. -H-bomb. -From Bensonhurst. -Nuclear megaton bomb.

— Flipper Purify (Wesley Snipes), Cyrus (Spike Lee)

8 That woman was there for me. 'Till death do us part.' That... was a _in' marriage.

— Lou Carbone (Anthony Quinn)

9 The devil is always at work... -People are responsible for their own actions. The devil had little if anything to do with it.

— Flipper Purify (Wesley Snipes), The Good Reverend Doctor Purify (Ossie Davis)

10 Was it the temptation of the sweet nectar of another woman's fruit?

— The Good Reverend Doctor Purify (Ossie Davis)

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