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But they were so proud to be white, and therefore superior, they kept their mouths shut and their legs locked tight.

12 seconds sound clip from the Jungle Fever movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:29:51 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- She believed him, thought she really was holy and pure, like the Virgin Mary.

- She let him put her up on that pedestal.

- Meanwhile, the husband, no sooner than the sun went down down to the slave quarters grabbin' up every piece of black poontang he could lay his hands on then running to the gin mill to brag about it.

- And that's how our blood got diluted. Mulattoes, quadroons, octoroons.

- I'm sure that most of those high and mighty white ladies felt abandoned.

- But they were so proud to be white, and therefore superior, they kept their mouths shut and their legs locked tight.

- But in the midnight hour, layin' there, alone, on the hot bed of lust...

- I'm sure they must've thought what it would be like to have one of them big, black bucks their husbands were so desperately afraid of.

- I feel sorry for you. Here it is the '90s, still tryin' to make up for what you missed out on. But I don't blame you.

- As for the black man like my own son, who ought to know better... got a loving wife and daughter, still got to fish in the white man's cesspool, I have nothing but contempt.

- Excuse me. I don't eat with whoremongers.

- But you knew she was comm'.

[...]

Jungle Fever Sound Clip

Jungle Fever Cover

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), 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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