Richard Roundtree credited as playing...
John Shaft
- [last lines]
- John Shaft: [on telephone] Vic, your case just busted wide open.
- Vic Androzzi: So close it for me.
- John Shaft: Cut the crap man, this is Shaft. Looks like you gonna have to close it yo'self, *shitty*!
- [cackles maniacally]
- Willy: Listen, Snow White. Me and you gonna tangle, sooner or later. Did you hear what I say?
- John Shaft: Why don't you stop playing with yourself, Willy? You ain't gonna do SHIT!
- John Shaft: Warms my black heart to see you so concerned about us minority folks.
- Vic Androzzi: Oh come on Shaft, what is it with this black shit, huh?
- [Vic holds a black pen up to Shaft's face]
- Vic Androzzi: You ain't so black.
- John Shaft: [Holds a white coffee cup next to Vic's face] And you ain't so white either baby.
- Sergeant Tom Hannon: Hey, where the hell are you going, Shaft?
- John Shaft: To get laid, where the hell are you going?
- Bumpy Jonas: [answering his phone] Wrong Number.
- John Shaft: Don't bull me, man. I got the right number. This is Shaft.
- Bumpy Jonas: How'd the hell you get this number?
- John Shaft: Off a bathroom wall in the god damn subway!
- John Shaft: When you lead your revolution, whitey better be standing still because you don't run worth a damn no more.
- John Shaft: Sorry, I can't make it.
- Ellie Moore: You got problems, baby?
- John Shaft: Heh. Yeah, I got a couple of 'em. I was born black... and I was born poor.
- Willy: Got to see if you're clean before you can see the Man.
- John Shaft: [laugh] Better get yourself six more helpers then, Willy.
- Willy: That's how it's done.
- John Shaft: Who searches you?
- Willy: Nobody.
- John Shaft: Then get the same cat to search us.
- Ellie Moore: Hi! You alright? Baby, are you alright?
- John Shaft: I got to feelin' like a machine. That's no way to feel. Come here, baby.
- [the lovemaking begins]
- Mafia contact: I'm lookin' for a nigger named John Shaft.
- John Shaft: Just found him - *wop*. Sit down.
- Mafia contact: I'm supposed to take you to visit a lady. Come on.
- John Shaft: I haven't finished my espresso. Why don't you have some. Maybe they'll put a little garlic in it, if you're nice.
- Mafia contact: No thanks. But, you go ahead. We've even got time for you to have your soul food.
- Vic Androzzi: Call me when you get home.
- John Shaft: I will.
- Vic Androzzi: [leaves, motions as if to close the door, and then...] Close it yourself, shitty.
- [cackles]
- Vic Androzzi: You got a minute, Shaft?
- John Shaft: I got no use for no dirty postcards, Vic. Get off my back, huh.