"All that foreign oil controlling American soil. Look around you, it's just bound to make you embarrassed: sheiks walking around like kings, wearing fancy jewels and nose rings, deciding America's future from Amsterdam and to Paris."

"Have they counted the cost it'll take to bring down all the earthly principles they're gonna have to abandon?"

"I believe in you even on the morning after."

"They'd like to drive me from this town; they don't want me around, 'cause I believe in you."

"We are covered in blood, girl. You know both our forefathers were slaves. Let us hope they've found mercy in their bone-filled graves."

"My so-called friends have fallen under a spell: they look me squarely in the eye and say, "Well; all is well.""

"The enemy is subtle. How be it we're deceived? When the truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe."

"Now there's spiritual warfare, flesh and blood breaking down. You either got faith or you got unbelief, and there ain't no neutral ground."

"You may call me Bobby; you may call me Zimmy..."

"It may be the Devil or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody."

"I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings, and I've never been too impressed"

"Do you love me, or are you just extending good will?"

"Señor, señor, can you tell me where we’re heading? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon?"

"Gentlemen, he said I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes I've moved your mountains and marked your cards But Eden is burning either get ready for elimination Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards Peace will come with tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will offer no reward when her false idols fall And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating Between the King and the Queen of Swords"

"Don't turn away, you'll create sorrow, Time is an ocean but it ends at the shore, You may not see me tomorrow."

"There's lots of pretty girls in Mozambique."

"Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land, where justice is a game."

"Meanwhile, far away in another part of town, Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin’ around. Number one contender for the middleweight crown, Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down. When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road, Just like the time before and the time before that. In Paterson that’s just the way things go: If you’re black you might as well not show up on the street ’Less you wanna draw the heat."

"Here comes the story of The Hurricane, the man the authorities came to blame for something that he never done. Put in a prison cell, but one time he coulda been the champion of the world."

"Wheels on fire, rolling down the road, best notify my next of kin, this wheel shall explode!"

"If your memory serves you well, I remember you're the one who called out me to call out them to get your business done. And after every plan has failed, and there was nothing left to tell, well you knew that we shall meet again if your memory serves you well."

"If your memory serves you well, I was gonna confiscate your lace and wrap it up in a sailor's knot and hide it in your case. And if I knew for sure that it was yours, it was oh so hard to tell, and you know that we shall meet again, if your memory serves you well."

"If your mem'ry serves you well, we were gonna meet again and wait, so I think I'll just unpack my bags and sit before it gets too late. No man alive will come to you with another tale to tell, but you know that we shall meet again, if your mem'ry serves you well."

"Take care of all your memories. said my friend Mick, For you cannot relive them."

"Well, it's sugar for sugar And salt for salt If you go down in the flood It's gonna be your own fault"

"If she's passing back this way I'm not that hard to find Tell her she can look me up if she's got the time."

"Sundown yellow moon I replay the past I know every scene by heart they all went by so fast"

"Say for me that I'm all right though things get kind of slow She might think that I've forgotten her don't tell her it isn't so."

"I always have respected her for doin' what she did and gettin' free"

"Try imagining a place where it's always safe and warm..."

"Beauty walks a razor's edge, someday I'll make it mine."

"'Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood When blackness was a virtue, the road was full of mud. I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form, 'Come in,' she said, 'I'll give you shelter from the storm.'"

"Backstage the girls were playin' five-card stud by the stairs, Lily had two queens, she was hopin' for a third to match her pair. Outside the streets were fillin' up, the window was open wide, A gentle breeze was blowin', you could feel it from inside. Lily called another bet and drew up the Jack of Hearts."

"I know where I can find you — in somebody's room. It's the price I have to pay, you're a big girl all the way."