- Comanche: What's your plan?
- Hernan 'Shades' Alvarez: To live the American dream.
- Comanche: [laughs] I got a loaded gun, a hard dick, and a pocket full of cash. That's the American dream, right?
- Hernan 'Shades' Alvarez: There's more than this shit, and you know it. Thousand dollar suits, bitches, champagne, all that shit is cute, but when you have to kill to get it, you're gonna get killed if you keep it. That's karma.
- Comanche: That's the life. We do what we do.
- Hernan 'Shades' Alvarez: But there's a better way, a bigger life... one where you don't have to look over your shoulder every second. Mariah's taught me that. You're just out of prison, but you still have that mentality. You gotta forget all that shit. We don't have to be gangsters. We can be so much more than that.
- Comanche: We *are* more than that. Or did you forget that shit too?
- Luke Cage: You're too valuable. You're the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. You're a living, breathing, one man Crispus Attucks ghetto stash house, the best bargaining chip ever.
- Anansi: Eye for eye make the whole world blind. The past gone. You can't change it. All you can do is build something for the next generation.
- Raymond 'Piranha' Jones: You really suck at this for hire thing, you do realize that, right? I mean, just - just no professional ethics as all! Just - just ghetto. Support black business, brother! Shoot, you're bullet proof? I'm ghetto proof!
- Anansi: You family. Me love you. But you must find peace in your heart!
- John 'Bushmaster' McIver: Me say war.
- Luke Cage: Don't you want to want to live your own life?
- John 'Bushmaster' McIver: And do what ? Hmm? Get job, love woman, raise pickney?
- Luke Cage: Sounds good to me.
- John 'Bushmaster' McIver: Is that your life?
- Luke Cage: No. Not while I have to deal with people like you.
- Mariah Dillard: [holds up her filled glass] To trust and love. Screw them both.
- [throws back her drink]
- Mariah Dillard: Everyone I have ever loved has betrayed me.
- Dr. Gabe Krasner: Three quarter tax free pension. I'd give my right arm for that kind of package.
- Misty Knight: [laughs] You know, you don't sugar coat shit, and I appreciate that about you.
- Mariah Dillard: My sworn enemy is the only one I can trust to protect everything I've got left in this world.
- John 'Bushmaster' McIver: Mariah must burn!
- Anansi: Then kill her! Me can't argue that! But this terrorization make we people look bad!
- Anansi: You nuh understand we people position in this country? We come here wit nothing and build everything up from scratch: restaurants, car services, nursing, tax preparation, engineering. We stress education, and we work *hard*. You waan people to be sent back? You waan to make we people look so savage this country turn pon we?