Quotes from
American History X (1998)
Doris Vinyard: I'm ashamed that you came out of my body.Cameron: This is stupid. Go cool off, get laid, do something, comeback when you're ready to talk.
Derek Vinyard: Yeah, but it really doesn't matter if I do does it, 'cause you got a whole crop already lined up you fuckin' chicken hawk!
Cameron: Excuse me?
Derek Vinyard: You prey on people Cam. I lost three years of my life for your fuckin' phony cause but I'm onto you know you fuckin' snake.
Cameron: Hey watch it Derek, this isn't some fuckin' country club where you can walk in and outta here-
Derek Vinyard: Shut up! Shut Up! Shut the fuck up, I came here for one reason, to tell you that I'm out, and Danny's out too and if you come near him again, I'll fuckin' kill you.
Bob Sweeney: Has anything you've done made your life better?
Derek Vinyard: One in every three black males is in some phase of the correctional system. Is that a coincidence or do these people have, you know, like a racial commitment to crime?
Doris Vinyard: You think you're the only one doin' time, Derek? You think you're here all alone? You think I'm not in here with you?
Seth: Who do you hate, Danny?
Danny Vinyard: I hate anyone that isn't white Protestant.
Seth: Why?
Danny Vinyard: They're a burden to the advancement of the white race. Some of them are alright, I guess...
Seth: None of 'em are fucking alright, Danny, OK?
Danny Vinyard: Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time.
Derek Vinyard: We're so hung up on this notion that we have some obligation to help the struggling black man, you know. Cut him some slack until he can overcome these historical injustices. It's crap. I mean, Christ, Lincoln freed the slaves, like, what? 130 years ago. How long does it take to get your act together?
[Inside prison laundry]
Inmate: I'm the most dangerous man in this prison. You know why? 'Cause I control the underwear.
Danny Vinyard: We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained we must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.
Danny Vinyard: I believe in death, destruction, chaos filth and greed.
Derek Vinyard: Every night, thousands of these parasites stream across the border like some fuckin' pinata exploded.
[the skinheads laugh]
Derek Vinyard: Don't laugh! There's nothin' funny goin' on here!
[the skinheads immediately quiet down]
Murray: What are you doing Derek? This is your family.
Derek Vinyard: Right, my family so you know what? I don't give two shits about you or anyone else or what they think. You're not a part of it and you never will be.
Murray: That has nothing to do with it!
Derek Vinyard: Oh it doesn't? You don't think I see what you're trying to do here? You think I'm gonna sit here and smile while some fuckin' kike tries to fuck my mother? It's never gonna happen Murray, fuckin' forget it, not on my watch, not while I'm still in this family. I will fuckin' cut your Shylock nose off and stick it up your ass before I let that happen. Coming here and poison my family's dinner with your Jewish, Nigger-lovin', hippie bullshit. Fuck you! Fuck you! Yeah, walk out, asshole, fuckin' Cabala reading motherfucker. Get the fuck out of my house.
[Danny walks in on Derek and Stacey having sex]
Danny Vinyard: [whispering] Der. Derek.
Stacey: Jesus, Danny! Fuckin' perv.
Derek Vinyard: Jesus, Danny. What the fuck are you thinking?
Danny Vinyard: There's a black guy breaking into your car.
Derek Vinyard: How many are there?
[Derek quickly pulls on white boxers and black combat boots]
Danny Vinyard: I don't know. I think one.
Derek Vinyard: Is he strapped?
Danny Vinyard: What?
Derek Vinyard: Does he have a fucking gun Danny!?
Danny Vinyard: I don't fuckin' know, man.
[Derek pulls out a gun from his dresser drawer]
Stacey: Oh, my God Derek what are you doing?
Derek Vinyard: Not right now honey.
Derek Vinyard: Nigger, you just fucked with the wrong bull. You should've learned your lesson on the fuckin' basketball court. But you fuckin' monkey's never get the message. My father gave me that truck motherfucker! You ever shoot at fireman? You come here and shoot at my family? I'm gonna teach you a real lesson now motherfucker. Put your fuckin' mouth on the curb.
Lawrence: Come on man.
Derek Vinyard: Put it on the curb right now!
Danny Vinyard: Derek, no!
Derek Vinyard: Now say good night.
[Derek stomps Lawrence's head into the curb.]
Seth: [singing] My eyes have seen the glory of the trampling at the zoo, we've washed ourselves in niggers blood and all the mongrels too, we've taken down the zog machine Jew by Jew by Jew, the white man marches on!
Cameron: You made the fat kid a little nervous. He thinks the joint messed with your mind.
Derek Vinyard: It did.
[On Derek's change in prison]
Danny Vinyard: I'm sorry, Derek. I'm sorry that happened to you.
Derek Vinyard: I'm not. I'm lucky. I feel lucky because it's wrong, Danny. It's wrong and it was eating me up, it was going to kill me. And I kept asking myself all the time, how did I buy into this shit? It was because I was pissed off, and nothing I ever did ever took that feeling away. I killed two guys, Danny, I killed them. And it didn't make me feel any different. It just got me more lost and I'm tired of being pissed off, Danny. I'm just tired of it.
Danny Vinyard: [referring to Dr. Sweeney] He's one of those proud to be nigger guys, I hate those guys.
Cameron: Now wait a minute Danny, he's not proud, no he's a manipulative self-righteous Uncle Tom whose trying to make you feel guilty about writing about Adolf Hitler.
Derek Vinyard: D'you see this?
[Pulls down shirt to reveal huge swastika tattoo on his chest]
Derek Vinyard: This means "Not welcome".
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