The Young One (1960)

Bernie Hamilton: Traver

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• Jackson : Go ahead. Say something, say something fresh.

  Traver : It's easy to insult a man when you got him hog-tied.

  Jackson : You intimatin' I'm a coward 'cause I got you tied up here? Well that ain't it. Believe it, don't believe it, makes no difference. I seen my death half dozen times. And I never yet been scared and that's the truth. You see it's... just like you got a alligator, you tie him up. A lot of soft-hearted people try to-- try to make out a nigger's a man. I just don't believe it. I don't believe you are; God left somethin' out of you, a soul or somethin'. Trying to prove he's a man is what gets a nigger into trouble. Was you a man, I'd be mad at you, but I ain't really. Hell, I'm sorry for you, and that's the truth.

• Traver : I'm just kinda jumpy, you know this Miller guy might not go for my being here and eating his food and smoking his cigarettes, but you're real cool. I mean like, I don't even frighten ya. How come?

  Evalyn : You're just like old Jem. He owned the house before Miller came. He made me slingshots!

  Traver : Slingshots? Well, I don't dig that kinda jazz, but I'd like to tell ya this, you gotta whole lot of soul to be so young.