Roots (1977)

Louis Gossett Jr.: Fiddler

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• Kunta Kinti : What's snow, Fiddler?

  Fiddler : Never you mind, boy, never you mind. Let's get on back to home. I got enough trouble teaching you the difference between manure and massa. 'Course there ain't all that much difference when you gets right down to it.

• Kunta Kinti : I'm a Mandinka warrior!

  Fiddler : [turns to stable horse]  Horse! I hear tell that you ain't a horse at all. I hear tell that you think you a mighty crow! I hear tell that you fly from here 'bouts all the way to Annapolis and back again. Now horse... you look mighty like a horse to me. And you sure SMELLS mighty like a horse. So I'm saying to you, that you... is... a horse! What you think you is don't matter a damn bit.

• Kunta Kinti : What Christmas, Fiddlah?

  Fiddler : Christmas is when White folk give each other stuff don't neither of em need.