Fences

All I want them to do is change the job description. Give everybody a chance to drive the truck. (3)

Look here, as long as you known me ... you ever known me to chase after women? .. since I been married to Rose? (4)

There's a lot of people don't know they can do no better than they doing now. That's just something you got to learn. (7)

You shop where you want to. I'll do my shopping where the people been good to me. (7)

I told that boy about that football stuff. The white man ain't gonna let him get nowhere with that football. (8)

Ain't but two men ever played baseball as good as you. That's Babe Ruth and Josh Gibson. Them's the only two men ever hit more home runs than you. (9)

Times have changed since you was playing baseball, Troy. That was before the war. (9)

Death ain't nothing. I done seen him. Done wrassled with him. (10)

Well, hell, since you mentioned it ... let me have ten dollars. (14)

That ain't for me. I don't wanna be carrying nobody's rubbish. I don't wanna be punching nobody's time clock. (17)

I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't own you nothing. You owe it to yourself. (18)

I know I got to eat. But I got to live too. I need something that gonna help me to get out of the bed in the morning. Make me feel like I belong in the world. (18)

I'm just stating the facts. If my brother didn't have that metal plate in his head ... I wouldn't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of. (28)

You go on and get your book-learning so you can work yourself up in that A&P or learn how to fix cars or build houses or something, get you a trade. That way you have something can't nobody take away from you. (35)

It's my job. It's my responsibility! You understand that? A man got to take care of his family. (38)

Everything that boy do ... he do for you. He wants you to say "Good job, son." That's all. (39)

Times have changed from when you was young, Troy. People change. The world's changing around you and you can't even see it. (40)

Oh, I been chasing hellhounds and waiting on the time to tell St. Peter to open the gates. (47)

But I'll say this for him ... he felt a responsibility toward us. Maybe he ain't treated us the way I felt he should have ... but without that responsibility he could have walked off and left us .. made his own way. (51)

Part of that cutting down was when I got to the place where I could feel him kicking in my blood and knew that the only thing that separated us was the matter of a few years. (53)

Some people build fences to keep people out ... and other people build fences to keep people in. Rose wants to hold on to you all. She loves you. (61)

You done learned me a lot of things. You showed me how to not make the same mistakes ... to take life as it comes along and keep putting one foot in front of the other. (62)

You's in control ... that's what you tell me all the time. You responsible for what you do. (63)

I ain't ducking the responsibility of it. As long as it sets right in my heart ... then I'm okay. Cause that's all I listen to. It'll tell me right from wrong every time. (63)

Why, Troy? Why? After all these years to come dragging this in to me now. It don't make no sense at your age. (67)

It's just ... She gives me a different ideas .. a different understanding about myself. I can step out of this house and get away from the pressures and problems ... to be a different man. (68-69)

I done tried all my life to live decent ... to live a clean .. hard .. useful life. I tried to be a good husband to you. In every way I know how. (69)

Alright ... Mr. Death. I'm gonna build me a fence around what belongs to me. And then I want you to stay on the other side. (77)

From right now .. this child got a mother. But you a womanless man. (79)

I just stopped by. I'm fixing to go over to Skinner's. We got us a domino game going over his house every Friday. (83)

You ain't never done nothing but hold me back. Afraid I was gonna be better than you. All you ever did was try and make me scared of you. (86)

They got me down the workhouse. I thought I was being slick cashing other people's checks. (94)

He used to say that when he struck out. I seen him strike out three times in a row ... and the next time up he hit it over everything! (94)

Disrespecting your daddy ain't gonna make you a man. You got to find a way to come to that on your own. (96)

Your daddy wanted you to be everything he wasn't ... and at the same time he tried to make you into everything he was. I don't know if he was right or wrong ... but I do know he meant to do more good than he meant to do harm. (97)