"Art will give you crowns in heaven and laurels on Earth, but also, it will tear your heart out and leave you lonely. You'll be a shanda [disgrace in Yiddish] for your loved ones. An exile in the desert. A gypsy. Art is no game! Art is dangerous as a lion's mouth. It'll bite your head off."

"Movies are dreams that you never forget."

"I'm doing this thing. And I don't know if it's the right thing but it's a life or death thing for me, and I'm sorry, but everybody else is gonna have to hang on for dear life. And somehow, we will survive this, all of us. Even your father, who I adore with all my heart. He deserves so much better than what I'm doing, but... .but Benny needs me, dolly. And I need him. So much so that without him, I'm turning into someone I don't know, and none of you will know my anymore. I'll just be that hateful person who did that terrible thing to your back. And yes, this is the most selfish thing I have ever done. But I've gotta do this now because, Sammy, you do what your heart says you have to, because you don't owe anyone your life. Not even me."

"Everything happens for a reason."

"Bennie Loewy: [to Sammy] Think whatever bad things you want about me, kiddo, but you stop making movies, it’ll break your mother’s heart. You will break her heart, I mean it. [he tears up] And she doesn’t deserve that, not from anybody. Least of all from you."

"It feels like my life is going by so fast, but it's not getting anywhere."

"Mark Francis - FBI Agent David Black"

"Amari Cheatom - Rod Collins"

"Khris Davis - Steel"

"Martin Sheen - J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI"

"Ian Duff - Doc Satchel"

"Lil Rel Howery - Wayne"

"Dominique Thorne - Judy Harmon"

"Dominique Fishback - Deborah Johnson"

"What if the overseer had banded with the slaves and cut the master's throat? What then, comrade? We might not be in this funky-ass ghetto right now."

"Daniel Kaluuya - Fred Hampton"

"LaKeith Stanfield - Bill O'Neal,"

"Our job as the Black Panther Party is to heighten the contradictions."

"Put a fist in the air for Comrade Jimmy Palmer. Jimmy Palmer died a revolutionary death. He stood face-to-face and toe-to-toe with pig Daley's henchmen, and made the greatest sacrifice one could ever make."

"Caleb Eberhardt - Bob Lee"

"Ashton Sanders - Jimmy Palmer"

"Jesse Plemons - Roy Mitchell"

"Drummer, lemme hear the people beat! This is what we call the people beat. Started in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. It's the beat that manifests in you, the people. They can't never stop the party, unless they stop the people!"

"You don't fight racism with racism. We gonna fight with solidarity."

"We ain't gonna fight capitalism with Black capitalism, we gonna fight capitalism with socialism."

"It's not a question of violence or non-violence. It's a question of resistance to fascism or non-existence within fascism! You can murder a liberator, but you can't murder liberation. You can murder a revolutionary, but you can't murder a revolution. And you can murder a freedom fighter but you can't murder freedom! I am a revolutionary! I am a revolutionary! I am a revolutionary! I am a revolutionary! [pause] I don't believe I'm gonna die in no car wreck! I don't believe I'm gonna die slippin' on no ice! I don't believe I'm gonna die 'cause I got a bad heart! I believe I'm gonna die doing what I was born for! I believe I'm gonna die high off the people! I'm gonna die for the people, 'cause I live for the people! I live for the people, 'cause I love the people!"

"So, if you were asked to make a commitment at age 20, and you said, 'I'm too young to die,' then you're dead already! If you dare to struggle, you dare to win! If you dare not struggle, then, God damn it, you don't deserve to win!"

"There's strength in numbers. Power anywhere there's people."

"Malcolm X College, I can dig it. Dr. Charles Hurst, direct from Howard. Right on. So, what? You think the students over there gonna be free now? Oh, they'll let you change the name of your college, or your own name, throw on a dashiki. 'Cause guess what? They still gonna drag your Black ass to Vietnam to shoot a poor rice farmer or get shot your damn self. That's the difference between revolution and the candy-coated facade of gradual reform. Reform is just the masters teaching the slaves how to be better slaves. Under reform, you could take the motherfucking masters out, and the slaves still be doin' all the work for 'em. There's a man called a capitalist. Don't matter what color he is, black, white, brown, red, don't matter. Because the capitalist has one goal. And that is to exploit the people. He can have on a three-piece suit or a dashiki, 'cause political power doesn't flow from the sleeve of a dashiki. Political power flows from the barrel of a gun. We in the Black Panther Party don't believe in no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you! Don't give me no five-and-dime costume of a medicine man or a witch doctor, or whatever you think the motherland look like. Give me the righteous threads of a Mozambican FRELIMO fighter."

"Housing, justice, peace... Life, liberty, happiness. I mean, it's all right there in the Declaration of Independence. But when poor people demand it, it's a contradiction -- it's not Democracy, it's Socialism."

"America's on fire right now and until the fire is extinguished don't nothin' else mean a goddamn thing."

"Algee Smith - Jake Winters"

"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed"

"These motherfuckers ain't no terrorists. Shit, they're terrorizing me."

"Robert Longstreet - Leslie Carlyle"

"The pigs do everything in their power to keep us isolated. Because they know, the day we get organized, it's over for their asses."

"Darrell Britt-Gibson - Bobby Rush"

"Amber Chardae Robinson - Betty Coachman"

"That motherfucker Fred, he could sell salt to a slug."

"I'm all for civil rights but you can't cheat your way to equality. And you certainly can't shoot your way to it."

"Jermaine Fowler - Mark Clark"

"Cle Morgan - Mahalia Jackson"

"Shonka Dukureh - Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton"