Set It Off (1996)

Chaz Lamar Shepherd: Stevie

Quotes 

• Lida 'Stony' Newsom : [holding up a check]  Look! Did your sister come through for you or what?

  Stevie Newsom : Where did you get this?

  Lida 'Stony' Newsom : Don't worry about where I got it from. That ain't none of your business. Just look at the digits!

  Stevie Newsom : Look, Stony, there's something I got to tell you.

  Lida 'Stony' Newsom : Look, Stevie, I know this is hardly enough money. But I swear, I will get every...

  Stevie Newsom : No, no, listen to me. I didn't get into U.C.L.A., and I'm not going because I didn't get accepted.

  Lida 'Stony' Newsom : [angrily slaps Stevie]  You didn't get IN?

  Stevie Newsom : Come on, Stony, don't go off on me now...

  Lida 'Stony' Newsom : DON'T you tell me not to go off on you! Do you have any IDEA what I had to go through? Do you?

  Stevie Newsom : I'm not staying around for this.

  [moves to leave] 

  Lida 'Stony' Newsom : [grabbing Stevie's shirt]  You ARE going to hang around for this, and don't you move. Why did you have to lie to me?

  Stevie Newsom : Stony, you know how long you told me that I HAD to go to college? Well, I'm sorry, but maybe that life just isn't for me.

  [exits the apartment] 

  Lida 'Stony' Newsom : [tears the check into pieces]