- [In Samson's Bar. Nappa's man are making trouble. Samson gets angry]
- Samson: Just keep your people out of here!
- Johnny Nappa: But you have a bar. You have a license. You have to serve anybody who comes in here, don't you?
- Samson: [smiles] Yeah, but this is a lousy bar with lousy service!
- Tina: Can't you stay just a little while longer?
- Johnny Nappa: Baby. Baby, you are starting to bug me.
- Tina: Johnny, I'll miss you.
- Johnny Nappa: Shut up and get my coat.
- Arthur: You know, we both grew up in this same neighborhood. And we both know exactly how it runs. So, now I'm gonna tell you a little piece of advice. Sooner or later those white boys *are* gonna move in here. I can see that. So, you had better get ready to hold on to what you've got.
- Samson: You on one side and them on the other. Where you at?
- Arthur: I stay out as long as they stay out. But, when they make their move and the war comes down, well, then I'm just pickin' up the pieces. Business is business.
- Samson: Witness to the fact. What about our people>
- Arthur: What about our people? With me its the law of supply and demand.
- Arthur: I can hardly keep up with the demand.
- Samson: Word's out that you got people out on my street.
- Arthur: No, sir! What's the matter? Is somebody hustlin' you around?
- Samson: Somebody pushin'. Somebody hustlin' - smack.
- Arthur: Well, it's not one of mine. *But*, maybe them white boys is nibblin' at you.
- Joseph Nappa: Young blood. It's always the same. Testing themselves. The smell of death, Giovanni, it is not a nice smell.
- Joseph Nappa: She's very easy to look at, huh?
- Johnny Nappa: You playin' around, Uncle Joe?
- Joseph Nappa: A quick peek down a low-cut dress, that's about all I am allowed these days. Very sad, huh?
- Joseph Nappa: Sometimes it is the measure of a man to be wise and avoid the small trouble. To take extreme measures, that's a big step. One cannot turn back. There is no end until it is finished.
- Samson: Something heavy's comin' down. Somethin' heavy on the streets. Its aimin' at me and I ain't runnin'.
- Samson: The streets are clean. The people trust me.
- Leslie: The people? The people? Your brothers and sisters ain't gonna do no dyin' for you! Look, Samson, lets say you get by for a month, two months, a year! They'll get you - sooner or later. They never give up. You just one man! And when your dead, they gonna move in and take over anyhow.
- Old Henry: Love that bourbon whiskey. Yes, sah, in the hour of need, its the best friend that a man could ever have. You can take it with you - anywhere. You can take it for the blues or the good old times. Yes, sah.
- Leslie: Are you tryin' to be some kind of martyr? That's it! You wanna die, don't you! Well I don't wanna love a dead man! That's sick! I don't wanna sleep with a corpse - a walkin', talkin' dead on arrival!
- Arthur: As for your friend Samson, well he's just gonna have to be as big and as bad as all those people think he is. Cause if he ain't - his brains are gonna be all over that sidewalk.
- Johnny Nappa: That's his bitch.
- Harry: Not bad. Definitely prime cut.
- Johnny Nappa: You wouldn't know what to do with that if you had it.
- Harry: How much does she cost for the night?
- Samson: More than you can pay in a year.
- Harry: I got a credit card.
- Johnny Nappa: Harry, that's for gas not for ass.
- Bar Patron: Where's the dancer?
- Samson: She didn't show.
- Bar Patron: She didn't show? Jesus, white people are shiftless.
- Johnny Nappa: A fella I know needs a dancer.
- Tina: Are you kidding? What's it about?
- Johnny Nappa: Well, I want to find out about this guy. A nigger. A nigger named Samson.
- Tina: A nigger? Come on, Johnny.
- Johnny Nappa: You always said you wanted to help me baby. Now is your chance.
- Tina: What can I do?
- Johnny Nappa: I want you to find out about everything. I want to know his habits, his patterns. I want to know where he goes and who he sees. I want to know his weaknesses.
- Tina: What are you talking about.
- Johnny Nappa: I'm talking about the nigger.
- Tina: Ah, he's not so bad.
- Johnny Nappa: What does that mean?
- Tina: He's nice to me.
- Johnny Nappa: How nice?
- Tina: Come on, Johnny. He doesn't mean anything. He just talks to me.
- Johnny Nappa: Come here. Let me tell you something. If I find out that you fucked that nigger, I'm gonna carve you nine ways.
- Tina: You're my man.
- Johnny Nappa: Yeah. Yeah, you know who signs checks. Don't you baby?
- Johnny Nappa: You, cunt, you bitch!
- [hits Tina]
- Tina: Johnny, no!
- Johnny Nappa: You told him. You told that nigger bastard.
- [hits Tina]
- Tina: Johnny, no! No, I didn't! I didn't do anything. Johnny, please! I didn't do it!
- [Johnny keeps hitting her]
- Arthur: What do you think is goin' on out here? You got some idea that this is some little honky kids with some cap pistols or somethin'? There is a war happenin', baby! There's a whole army pulling' up out there.
- Leslie: So what can he do?
- Arthur: He can get the hell out or he can get some help; 'cause the rest of it is jive bull shit!
- Jessie: That guy's a righteous dude. He keeps all the honky motherfuckers off the street.
- Arthur: Bull shit, Mama! Hey, he dug the hole, let him fill it up. I warned that nigga! Now, his ass is on the line.
- Leslie: And you just gonna sit back and watch everything, huh?
- Arthur: You got it, Mama. Just like ol' Satch Paige, I don't ever look back.
- Leslie: You dirty motherfucker, you.
- Arthur: Ow, Mama, say it again!
- Joseph Nappa: Well, smart guy, you handle it yourself. But if you get burned, don't come running to me.
- Johnny Nappa: I won't. Its a piece of cake.
- Joseph Nappa: Yeah. A piece of cake. I know a man who choked on a piece of cake.