Melinda (1972)

Calvin Lockhart: Frankie J. Parker

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• Frankie J. Parker : I hate to say this, but, I am such a pretty motherfucker.

• Frankie J. Parker : Sorry about that, but, I gotta leave you, sisters and brothers. Frankie J. Parker. The "J" is for joy; because, that's what you get from Frankie J. The mind-tripper, the mighty dipper, and the honey dripper. Lock up your daughters, girl friends, and wives, Mr. Jones, because Frankie J. is on his way. Frankie J. in the mornin'. Frankie J. in the night. Frankie J. in dreams. So fine, I want to kiss myself. Frankie J. "Joy" your messenger of enlightenment. After me, who remembers Aristotle? Listen to me with my bad, humble self.

• Gloria : [on the phone]  Hello, Mr. Bostick. I'm sorry but he left already, Mr. Bostick. I swear he did, Mr. Bostick. Yes, Mr. Bostick. I will, Mr. Bostick. Goodbye, Mr. Bostick.

  [hangs up the phone] 

  Gloria : One of these days you're gonna wear that man's patience down and find yourself on the streets without a job.

  Frankie J. Parker : Gloria, if that day ever comes, the women of this town will burn this radio station down.

• Frankie J. Parker : You a funny talkin' dude sometimes.

• Frankie J. Parker : Another day another dollar. When Frankie moves, all the women holler.

• Melinda : I didn't say you could sit.

  Frankie J. Parker : I'm sitting because you are a lady from out of town. You don't know anybody. You're beautiful. And I'm beautiful. So, it's only natural that we would gravitate toward each other.

• Frankie J. Parker : Your eyes have been following me all over this joint.

  Melinda : Maybe its because you walk funny.

  Frankie J. Parker : Then you're a freak for a funny walker.

• Gloria : Rev. Johnson called. He wants you to speak at his church on the fourth Sunday.

  Frankie J. Parker : Yeah. Church must be in some heavy trouble, huh? But, you tell him its cool. I'll show him and his congregation what paradise is. Give them a touch of paradise right here on earth. Mmm, yeah. How's that hit you, Gloria?

  Gloria : I think you're beginning to believe your own bull shit.

  Frankie J. Parker : [laughs]  Later, Baby.

• Melinda : Is there anything you haven't been or done?

  Frankie J. Parker : I haven't made love to you.

  Melinda : Yes you have. I your *dreams*.

• Frankie J. Parker : Brilliant mind perceptionist - that's what I am. Just another one of the things that makes me so special.

• Frankie J. Parker : Involvement. That's how people should enjoy each other. Its like some hidden nerve that suddenly cracks on itself.

• Frankie J. Parker : What you wanted was some weak-kneed faggot you could manipulate. Now, I can't cut that. So, why don't we just leave it, huh? You don't fuck with me and I won't fuck with you.

• Melinda : When I met you at Tank's last night, I just had to find out if there was something else other than jive-time behind that false exterior you're so in love with.

  Frankie J. Parker : How'd I make out?

  Melinda : It was a heavy, deep night, Frankie. That's the way you ought to think about yourself: deep and heavy. God knows the world is too full of hustlers and pimps, freaks, just plain old fashioned losers. Anyway, it's nice to run into - some soul for a change.

• Frankie J. Parker : Look, man, thanks for them lawyers you sent down to get me out of that joint. Them pig-ass motherfucking cops are crazy, baby.

  Tank : Look, don't sweat it. Anytime I can help a brother out, you know where I'm at.

• Frankie J. Parker : Well, lookie here. Pistol packin' bitch.

• Gloria : You're going to get me fired from my job yet, Frankie J.

  Frankie J. Parker : Don't worry about it, baby. When I get back to the office, besides making Bostick give you a raise, I'm gonna let you sit on my knee every now and then.

  Gloria : I pick the knees I sit on.

• Tank : That gift was from my heart.

  Frankie J. Parker : The only thing wrong with that is, that one of these days I might find myself in front of some investigating committee trying to prove what a big heart Tank Robinson's got - only to discover he had it transplanted with the heart of a midget.