"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!"

"[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."

"[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."

"[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!"

"[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."

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

"Dennis Troutman — Boots"

"Carl Lumbly — Mac Brashear"

"Joshua Leonard — Petty Officer Second Class Timothy Douglas Isert"

"David Conrad — Captain Hanks"

"Holt McCallany — Machinist's Mate First Class Dylan Rourke"

"Joshua Feinman — DuBoyce"

"Glynn Turman — Chief Floyd"

"Lonette McKee — Ella Brashear"

"Cuba Gooding, Jr — Boatswain's Mate Second Class/Senior Chief Petty Officer Carl Brashear"

"Robert De Niro — Master Chief Petty Officer Leslie William 'Billy' Sunday"

"History is made by those who break the rules."