36 Moonlight Quotes (2024)

Moonlight

Juan: [to Little] Let me tell you something, man. There are black people everywhere. You remember that, okay? No place you can go in the world ain't got no black people, we was the first on this planet.
[Slight pause]
Juan: I've been here a long time. I'm from Cuba. Lotta black folks in Cuba. You wouldn't know that from being here, though. I was a

wild little shorty, man. Just like you. Running around with no shoes on, when the moon was out. This one time, I ran by this old... this old lady. I was runnin' and hollerin', and cuttin' a fool, boy. This old lady, she stopped me. She said...
[He pauses]
Juan: [Imitating an old lady's voice] "Runnin' around, catching up all that light. In moonlight, black boys look

blue. You blue, that's what I'm gon' call you. 'Blue'."
Little: So your name 'Blue'?
Juan: [Chuckles] Nah.
[Another pause]
Juan: [to Little] At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can't let nobody make that decision for you.

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Little: [innocently] What's a faggot?
Juan: A faggot is... a word used to make gay people feel bad.
[pause]
Little: Am I a faggot?
Juan: No. You're not a faggot. You can be gay, but you don't have to let nobody call you a faggot.

Moonlight

[last lines]
Black: [to Kevin] You the only man that's ever touched me.
[long pause]
Black: You're the only one.
[long pause]
Black: I haven't really touched anyone since.

Moonlight

Juan: Ok. Let your head rest in my hand. Relax. I got you. I promise. I won't let you go. Hey man. I got you. There you go. Ten Seconds. Right there. You in the middle of the world.

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Juan: I saw your mama last night.
Little: I hate her.
Juan: I bet you do.
[pause]
Juan: Hated mine too.
[pause]
Juan: Miss her like hell now. All I'm gonna say about that.

Moonlight

Paula: You ain't got to love me, but you gonna know that I love you.

Moonlight

Kevin: I wasn't never worth shit. Never did anything I actually wanted to do, was all I could do to do what other folks thought I should do. I wasn't never myself.

Moonlight

Kevin: Who is you man?
Black: Who, me?
Kevin: Yeah nigga. You. Them fronts? That car? Who is you Chiron?
Black: I'm me man. Ain't trying to be nothing else.
Kevin: So you hard now?
Black: I ain't say that.
Kevin: Then what?
[pause]

Kevin: Look. I'm not trying hem you up. Just... I ain't seen you in a minute. Not what I expected, none of it. Not good or bad. Just not what I expected.
Black: Well, what did you expect?
[pause]
Kevin: You remember the last time I saw you?
[pause]
Black: For a long time, tried not to

remember. Tried to forget all those times.
[pause]
Kevin: Yeah. I know.

#man

Moonlight

Black: So you're Cuban now?
Kevin: Only in the kitchen, Papi.

Moonlight

Paula: You're my only. I'm your only.

Moonlight

Kevin (16): What you cry about?
Chiron: I should have cried too much sometimes I feel like I'm just gonna turn into drops.
Kevin (16): Just roll out into the water, right? Roll out into the water just like all these other muthafuckers around here trying to drown their sorrow.

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Little: Do you sell drugs?
Juan: Yeah.
Little: And my mama... she do drugs, right?
Juan: Yeah.
[Little gets up from the table and leaves. He never sees him again. Juan looks very ashamed of his actions]

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Kevin: Hey, these grandma rules, man. You know the deal. Your ass eat, your ass speak.

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Juan: At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can't let nobody make that decision for you.

Moonlight

Teresa: Aright. Water for me, and a little gin for you.
Teresa: [chuckles] Boy please. I know Juan used to give you that gin, but we ain't doing that up in here Chiron.
[pause]
Teresa: You don't think my joke was funny?
[pause]
Teresa: What's wrong?
Chiron: Nothing. I'm

good.
Teresa: No. I done seen good, and you ain't it.
Teresa: Stop putting yo' head down in my house! You know my rule. It's all love and all pride in this house! Do you feel me?
[Chiron nods]
Teresa: [scoffs] I can't hear you. Do you feel me?
Chiron: [quietly] Yeah.

Teresa: Okay.
Chiron: [firmly] I feel you.
Teresa: Aright.

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Kevin: So Chiron...
Black: [chuckles] What... Why are you lookin' me like that for?
Kevin: What man? Come on, you just drove down here?
[pause]
Black: Yeah.
Kevin: Like you was just, you was just on one, and you hit the highway?
Black: [quietly] Yeah.