Night World (1932)

Clarence Muse: Tim Washington, the Doorman

Quotes 

• Tim Washington, the Doorman : The wrong people always likes the wrong people.

• Tim Washington, the Doorman : Most all them folks is starving for something, and it ain't food. They comes in here and eats and dances and hugs themselves up to a woman,and for a while they think they're happy. Then they comes out, and the world is just as cold and empty as it was before. That's real starvin', Mr. Ryan.

  Officer Ryan : Why, Tim, you're a philospher.

  Tim Washington, the Doorman : Am I? You don't say so. That ain't what my wife Mary says. She says I'm just a fool-talkin' old colored man.