Red Tails

Red Tails Quotes

A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard.

Andrew 'Smokey' Salem: When you get upset, when you get mad, you turn red, right? When you get envoius, or sick, you turn green. When you become cowardly, you turn yellow; and ya'll got the nerve to call us colored?
Declan 'Winky' Hall: Experience is a cruel teacher, gives the exam first and then the lesson.
Joe 'Lightning' Little: Nothing's difficult. Everything's a challenge. Through adversity to the stars. From the last plane to the last bullet to the last minute to the last man - we fight. WE fight! We FIGHT!
Colonel A.J. Bullard: Politics is the art of postponing a decision until it is no longer relevant.
Lieutenant General Luntz: Colonel, the word is you're arrogant.
Colonel A.J. Bullard: If arrogant is the only word people use to describe me now, I would say I think I am making progress.
Colonel A.J. Bullard: We have a right to fight for our country. The same as every other American.
Pretty Boy: Die, you African fool!
Joe 'Lightning' Little: [after successfully shooting down Pretty Boy in a dogfight] That's the end of Pretty Boy!
Pretty Boy: [discovering who the pilots are] The American pilots are African!

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