"Let me tell you the story of right hand-left hand. It's a tale of good and evil. Hate: it was with this hand that Cain iced his brother. Love: these five fingers, they go straight to the soul of man. The right hand: the hand of love. The story of life is this: static. One hand is always fighting the other hand, and the left hand is kicking much ass. I mean, it looks like the right hand—Love—is finished. But hold on, stop the presses; the right hand is coming back. Yeah, he got the left hand on the ropes now, that's right. Ooh, it's a devastating right and Hate is hurt. He's down. Left-Hand Hate KO-ed by Love."

"Nicholas Turturro (extra) (uncredited)"

"Ginny Yang - Kim"

"Richard Parnell Habersham - Eddie"

"Frank Vincent as Charlie"

"John Savage - Clifton"

"Luis Antonio Ramos - Stevie"

"Miguel Sandoval - Officer Mark Ponte"

"Rick Aiello - Officer Gary Long"

"Steve Park - Sonny"

"Samuel L. Jackson - Mister Señor Love Daddy"

"Frankie Faison -Coconut Sid"

"Paul Benjamin - ML"

"Robin Harris - Sweet Dick Willie"

"Christa Rivers - Ella"

"Leonard L. Thomas - Punchy"

"Martin Lawrence - Cee"

"Steve White - Ahmad"

"Joie Lee - Jade"

"[as Pooky peers into camera in despair] Scottie, help me - I'm gonna die!"

"Flavor Flav - D.J."

"Fab Five Freddy - Master of Ceremonies"

"John Aprea - Don Armeteo"

"Anthony DeSando - Frankie Needles"

"Tracy Camilla Johns - Uniqua"

"Vanessa Williams - Keisha"

"Christopher Williams - Kareem Akbar"

"Bill Cobbs - Old man"

"Russell Wong - Park"

"Bill Nunn - Duh Duh Man"

"Michael Michele - Selina"

"Mario Van Peebles - Stone"

"Judd Nelson - Nick Peretti"

"Chris Rock - Pookie"

"Allen Payne - Gee Money"

"Ice T - Scotty Appleton"

"Wesley Snipes - Nino Brown"

"Where survival depends on friends, trust and power... An organized crime family out to run this city is up against cops who knows its streets."

"They're a new breed of gangster. The new public enemy. The new family of crime."

"(last lines) Idolator! Your soul is required in Hell! [shoots and kills Nino]"

"I should have killed you myself, bitch!"

"I wanna shoot you so bad, my dick's hard!"

"This ain't business, bitch- this is personal!"

"(talking to Duh Duh Man)...UNADULTERATED! Would you please shut the fuck up before you have a seizure!!"

"(talking to Uniqua) I knew I should've treated you like a hooker, you ain't nothing but a high-priced ho! Put Nino on the phone, bitch!"

"Look man, I don't know about all that "Change the World" shit, but what I do know, is that they be going crazy over this, man! I'm tellin' you! And the bitches? Oh, Lord! The bitches! Yo! They do anything for this, man! Yo, I had my jimmy waxed every day last week, ya understand?! Several times a day!"

"This whole drug shit: it's not a black thing, it's not a white thing. It's a death thing. Death don't give a shit about color."

"I never liked you anyway, pretty motherfucka!"

"Yeah, we takin' over the Carter. We gon' bum rush the whole damn thing. Now if the tenants cooperate, oh, it'll be lovely; they'll be loyal customers. If they don't, fuck it, it's like Beirut- they'll become live-in hostages."

"Cancel dat bitch! I'll buy another one!"