Save the Last Dance (2001)

Kerry Washington: Chenille

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Quotes 

• Chenille : You can't help who you love, Derek. You're not supposed to.

• [Chenille picks up Sara's backpack off the ground and Sara turns around, confused] 

  Chenille : That's how easy it is to give to charity around here. Don't put your shit on the floor.

• Chenille : You need to take off that fifth grade dance-lookin' top.

  Sara : It's from The Gap!

  Chenille : It's country, and you look country in it!

• Sara : Asshole.

  Chenille : Who? Because in this crowd you're going to have to be a bit more specific.

• Chenille : Quit it, Nikki.

  Nikki : Excuse me, I ain't walkin' on eggshells just 'cause you brought the Brady Bunch to the negro club.

  Sara : Then you must be in the wrong spot because I'm pretty sure there aren't any negroes here.

  Chenille : Ooh!

• Sara : There's only one world, Chenille.

  Chenille : That's what they teach you. We know different.

• Chenille : They call him Snookie because Fool was taken.

• Chenille : [to Kenny's back]  Go 'head... Leave! That's what you're good at! Your son ain't seen nothing but your back since he was born!

• Chenille : I saw you workin' it out there tonight, girl!

  Sara : Oh, yeah... slammin'!

  Chenille : Ah-huh! Later!

• Kenny : How you doin'?

  Chenille : Why don't you ask how your son is doing? That's a line you haven't tried in a while.

  Kenny : Why you always gotta jump off on me like that?

  Chenille : Why you gotta be like you are?

  Kenny : Ah, come on, you know you wanna dance with me. That's what you came here for, to yell at me, and to dance with me.

• Kenny : Don't blame me; I didn't want any of this!

  Chenille : What? 'Cause I did? I climbed on top of myself and got myself pregnant?

• Snookie : I'm free Saturday night.

  Chenille : Why, is your hand busy?

• Chenille : And this is Diggy. She thinks she's down.

  Diggy : Excuse me? I am down, okay?

• Chenille : Too many little boys thinkin' they thugs.