'I'm gonna put you up on a pedestal, so the whole world will fall down and worship you.'

9 seconds sound clip from the Jungle Fever movie soundboard.

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

Quote context

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- You think I don't understand about the white woman committing black adultery, but I do.

- Now, Daddy, no sermons, please.

- You see, there was a lot of lynchings down in Willicoochee, Georgia where I come from, when I was a boy.

- Willicoochee, Georgia! What a name! Willicoochee.

- White man say to his woman: 'Baby, you are the flower of white southern womanhood, too holy and pure to be touched by any man, including me.'

- 'I'm gonna put you up on a pedestal, so the whole world will fall down and worship you.'

- 'And if any nigger so much as look at you, I'll lynch his ass.'

- 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.

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