Black Caesar (1973)

Val Avery: Cardoza

Quotes 

• Cardoza : Who says spooks don't have any ambition?

• Cardoza : I don't use the same man in the same city twice. They can be easily identified.

  Tommy Gibbs : I got a built in disguise. They never look at me. They never look at my face or my nose or my lame foot. All they know is that I'm black.

  Cardoza : Your kind has no guts. You get picked up, right away they start to talk.

• Cardoza : Alright, you'll get your 200.

  Tommy Gibbs : Since when did the price go down?

  Cardoza : Since when did spades make as much as whites? Huh? Hey, listen, shadow, you're lucky I'm even talking to you.

• Cardoza : Hey, you know, those colored boys you ordered from Philadelphia and Detroit - they're great. They're really wonderful and they work cheap.

  [laughs] 

  Cardoza : Hey! Who says Lincoln freed the slaves?

  Tommy Gibbs : Who? Eh? Who Lincoln?

  Cardoza : Hey, some creep who didn't have enough sense to sit facing the door.

• Cardoza : Hey, you know, you knock me out. Every time you talk Sicilian, it's like a - dubbed-in movie.

• Tommy Gibbs : It was a clean job.

  Cardoza : You call that a clean job? In the middle of the afternoon? In a barber shop with witnesses?

  Tommy Gibbs : That's why I did it in front of everybody. So they could see it. Everybody knows your organization don't employ no niggers.

• Cardoza : You can do this to me? You can take everything away from me and give me this? Huh? A present - you black bastard!

  Tommy Gibbs : You still get your cut every week. Of course, being Italian is not the same as if you were - a negro.

  [laughs]