Jeremiah (TV Series)

Journeys End in Lovers Meeting (2002)

Malcolm-Jamal Warner: Kurdy

Quotes 

• Kurdy : [looks around the pilgrims' camp]  It's kind of nice.

  Jeremiah : Yeah, it's nice. This kind of nice makes me worry. It usually means somebody wants something from ya. Trust me. I've been hustled before by guys like this.

  Kurdy : You know, Jeremiah, my mom used to say there are two kinds of people - those who kiss and those who offer the cheek.

  Jeremiah : I don't get it.

  Kurdy : Look...

  Jeremiah : I mean, you know, nothing against your mom. It's just I, uh, I don't get that.

  Kurdy : Oh, forget it. She also said there are two types of kids. See, you give a kid a big, old box full of crap, and some kids are gonna see only the crap because that's what they're used to seeing, so they walk away. But the other type of kid sees that crap, dives in and starts digging like crazy 'cause he figures if theres that much crap, there's got be a pony in there somewhere.

  [smiles] 

  Jeremiah : So your mom said "crap".

• Constance : [stopping Kurdy, who is about to confront strangers who punched David, the pilgrims' leader]  No. In order to stay, we've all taken a vow of non-violence.

  Kurdy : You're kidding.

  Constance : David doesn't believe in violence.

  Kurdy : Oh yeah? well, what about when violence believes in him?

  Constance : He prays... a lot.

• Kurdy : [reads from his unfinished poem to the pilgrims]  I wear hope around my neck like a noose. It's loose enough for me to breathe when I need to get me through the day. And, with each swagger and sway, comes a new belief that there's a new relief around the way. So I keep going, halfway knowing it's just a trick my mind likes to play so I don't quit. Or is it? Maybe, I'll never know. Maybe I'll never go past the dreaming that there's more, the scheming that what I'm searching for is seemingly reminiscent to the folklore that there's a garden paradise where I can settle and never have to leave. Where I can

  [closes eyes] 

  Kurdy : breathe deep breaths and exhale with abandon. Maybe that paradise is wherever I'm standing... tall,

  [opens eyes but no longer looking at his notes] 

  Kurdy : believing in myself, that I can conquer all the sadness and all the madness, and have a ball wherever I go. Could that be the paradise I'm looking for? Maybe. Maybe I'll never know.

• Kurdy : Constance, what if you get to this place, and - I'm not saying this for sure, I'm just asking - but what if we get there and nothing happens? I mean no big, white ship, no golden sail coming out of the sky.

  Constance : Faith means believing in impossible things.

  Kurdy : But what if the impossible really is impossible?

  Constance : Do you know how many people we've reached on the road, touching them with our dream? What happens to us doesn't matter. What matters is we made our journey, kept faith with ourselves.

  Kurdy : I guess that's all that really matters for everybody, huh?

  Constance : [nods head]  Mm. At the end of it all, this isn't about God. It isn't about the road, and it isn't even about the big, white ship. It's about believing that miracles are possible. Because of what we're doing, thousands of people believe who didn't believe before, and they'll get their miracle no matter what... because a world without miracles isn't worth saving.