"[to Tre, who has his gun in his hand, after Ricky had been shot] I want you to give me the gun. Oh, I get it. You gonna end like Doughboy? Like little Chris in a wheelchair? Give me the motherfucking gun, Tre!"

"[about TV news coverage] Either they don't know, don't show, or don't care about what's going on in the hood. They had all this foreign shit. They didn't have shit on my brother, man."

"[referring to drug epidemic] I know every time you turn on the TV that's what you see. Black People, pushing the rock, selling the rock, that's what you see. But see that wasn't a problem as long as it was here. [referring to Compton, Watts, other Black ghettos] It wasn't a problem until it was in Iowa or on Wall Street where there are hardly any black people."

"[to Doughboy] You ain't shit. You just like your daddy. You don't do shit, and you never gonna amount to shit. All you do is eat, sleep, and shit."

"Stephanie Leigh Schlund as Megan Blakelee"

"What y'all doing now? Ricky? Oh, my God. Ricky? Ricky, baby, get up. Get up. Wake up, baby. Ricky, get up. Get up. It's all right. Get up, baby. Get up. Tre, what happened? What happened to him? [sees Doughboy] Oh, my God! What did you do to him? What did you do? What did you do? You did this! You did this! I'll kill you! You did it! I know you did it! You did it! Yes, you did! YOU DID IT TO HIM, YOU DID THIS! I told you! I TOLD YOU! My baby! Oh, God! Oh, God! Oh, my God! Ricky, baby! Ricky!"

"Angela Bassett - Reva Devereaux"

"Any fool with a dick can make a baby, but only a real man can raise his children."

"Melissa Ordway as Ashley"

"Carrie Malabre as Cassie"

"Nick Searcy as Tom Blakelee"

"Rhoda Griffis as a Doctor"

"Nick Lashaway as Marcus"

"Carly Chaikin as Blaze"

"Lance E. Nichols as Pastor Charlie Harris"

"Adam Barnett as Teddy"

"Greg Kinnear as Steve Miller"

"Kelly Preston as Kim Miller"

"Liam Hemsworth as Will Blakelee"

"Bobby Coleman as Jonah Miller"

"Hallock Beals as Scott"

"Raymond D. Turner - Ferris"

"Truth only means something when it's hard to admit! Don't you get that?"

"It's what I do mom. I push people away."

"People make mistakes, Will. Even the people that we love."

"Sometimes you have to be apart from the people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes it makes you love them more."

"[in letter to Ronnie] Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds."