"Judge Miriam Shoat: You are making a mockery of my courtroom, and I'm not going to allow it. I suggest you start representing your client and stop representing yourself."

"Janet Venable: Do you know what I would do if someone did that to me? I would kill him—I wouldn't hesitate. I would stab him 78 times. I would chop off his fingers, slash his throat open, carve numbers in his chest, gouge out his eyes, I swear to God! But that's me."

"He come crying to me like always, stuttering and whining. "I ca-can't take it no more, Roy. You g-got to help me". I said, "Shut your mouth, you little girl! Grow up. Be a man. Take care of yourself"."

"I got you now. You're the lawyer. You're his lawyer, ain't you? With your fancy suit. I heard about you. Well, my, my, you sure fucked this one up, counselor. Sounds to me like they're gonna shoot old Aaron so full of poison it'll come out his eyes!"

"Why gamble with money when you can gamble with people's lives? That was a joke. All right, I'll tell you. I believe in the notion that people are innocent until proven guilty. I believe in that notion because I choose to believe in the basic goodness of people. I choose to believe that not all crimes are committed by bad people. And I try to understand that some very, very good people do some very bad things."

"Bill Cobbs - Old man"

"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"

"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]"

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

"(Pooky describing a room used for freebasing) They call it the "Enterprise Room", man, because it's for people who wanna be beamed up to Scotty."

"(sobbing) I tried to kick... but that shit just be callin' me man, it be callin' me, man... I just got to go to it!"

"They got that shit hooked up like Mission Impossible, man!"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah- a mind is a terrible thing to waste. Now, back to the titties— what's goin' on in this drug store?"

"I don't know about you, man, but I'm ready to kill Nino Brown."

"Man, a drug dealer is the worst kind of brother. I mean, he won't sell it to his sister, he won't sell it to his mother- but he'll sell it to one of his boys on the street."

"Oh shit, that's the kid I shot!"

"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!"

"[testifying in court] I'm not guilty. You're the one that's guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Colombian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs legal. Just like you did with alcohol during Prohibition. You're the one who's guilty. I mean, c'mon, let's kick the ballistics here: ain't no Uzi's made in Harlem. Not one of us in here owns a poppy field. This thing is bigger than Nino Brown. This is big business. This is the American way."

"You gotta rob to get rich in the Reagan era."

"Yo baby, we talkin' about combinating and consolidating, that's what's up!"

"Money talks and bullshit runs a marathon. So, see ya and I wouldn't want to be ya."

"Am I my brother's keeper? Yes, I am."

"Sit your five-dollar ass down before I make change!"

"A million dollar a week business reduced to fucking rubble!"