Penitentiary (1979)

Floyd 'Wildcat' Chatman: Hezzikia 'Seldom Seen' Jackson

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• Hezzikia 'Seldom Seen' Jackson : Back up! I joke - and I laugh; but, I don't touch.

• Hezzikia 'Seldom Seen' Jackson : I'm not about to get to old, to get a little bold, and knock one of you chumps out cold.

• Hezzikia 'Seldom Seen' Jackson : I'm tryin' to work out one week of connubial visits for the winner in each event. Connubial visits, you jackasses, means that the winner of each event will get to spend one night, in a trailer, in the yard, with a woman! I'll tell you what - hold it - if you don't have a woman, we'll supply one for you.

• Hezzikia 'Seldom Seen' Jackson : Some time I can be tough. Some time I get mean. Why you think they call me: Seldom Seen.

• Hezzikia 'Seldom Seen' Jackson : If I can't have it all, I don't want *any* of it. And I'm for real.

• Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone : So man, you ain't human. I mean, I'm talkin' about pussy and here you are readin' a book. You've been locked up for God knows how long...

  Hezzikia 'Seldom Seen' Jackson : Thirty-five years. That's right. Thirty-five long years. And fifteen before that. That's right. I've been in the Pen fifty of the sixty-five years I've been on this earth. And I damn sure ain't about to get myself all worked up over no pussy for a week contest. Do you hear where I'm comin' from? Survival. That's my first concern. I faced myself - a long time ago. I'm nothin' and I faced it. Thirty-five years and I've learned to be content. I just deal with the me that's in here. I just lay back and relax and keep my mind together. Cause I now believe that I'm the one's free. The freer the man in the world. The rest of the world is locked up. They're locked out. And Too Sweet once I quit believin' that, I might as well push a bunk up against the wall, tie a sheet around my neck, and jump off. Why, I'd go completely crazy. They call that institutionalized, Too Sweet. Institutionalized. And I'm it.