The Butler

Release: August 16, 2013

Loosely based on the true story of Eugene Allen, Lee Daniels,’ this is the life story of Cecil Gaines, an African American waiter who becomes a White House butler. For nearly four decades, he will witness a number of sweeping socio-economic and political changes while serving in the White House.

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Cecil Gaines: "The last time I saw that much blood was the day my daddy was killed."

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Cecil Gaines: "You must look through your eyes, see what it is that they want, see what it is that they need, anticipate, bring a smile to the principal's eyes."

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Richard Nixon: " I don't want to say anything negative about that Kennedy boy. I'm sure he's a real nice fellow. But do you really want that spoiled rich son-of-a-bitch fuck to be your next president?"

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Cecil Gaines: "I don't think God meant for people to not have a family."

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Gloria Gaines: "Everything you are and everything you have, is because of that butler."

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Carter Wilson: "Negroes? Since when did he start calling us negroes? That nigger uses the word nigger more than I use it."

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Maynard: "Cecil, we got two faces: ours, and the ones that we got to show the white folks. Now, to get up in the world, you have to make them feel non-threatened. Use that, them fancy words that I've taught you. White folks up north, they like some uppity coloreds. Yeah."

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Cecil Gaines: "Vietnam took my boy, and I didn't understand why we were there in the first place."

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Martin Luther King Jr: "Young brother, the black domestic defy racial stereotypes by being hardworking and trustworthy. He slowly tears down racial hatred with his example of a strong work ethic and dignified character. Now, while we perceive the butler or the maid to be subservient, in many ways they are subversive, without even knowing it."

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Cecil Gaines: "America has always turned a blind eye to what we done to our own. We look out to the world and judge. We hear about the concentration camps but these camps went on for two hundred years right here in America."

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