“- Gang Member: Why are you working for these people? Pakis.
- Johnny: It's work, that's why.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Johnny

“- Miss Maudie Atkinson: Jem.
- Jem: Yes, ma'am?
- Miss Maudie Atkinson: I don't know if it will help saying this to you... some men in this world are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us... your father is one of them.
- Jem: Oh, well.”
Rosemary Murphy - Maudie Atkinson
Phillip Alford - Jem

“Boy, I'm telling you, you brothers are gonna be large! But like I said, you got to be careful. Because y'all are telling the truth, and the white man don't want you all saying what you're saying.”

Barry Shabaka Henley - Geoffrey Lennox

“This is a child of the jungle, an animal with a human voice. It if were human, an animal would cringe at its vices. These creatures are lethal and lecherous. They will have to be subdued by the sword and brought to profitable labor by the whip.”

Chuck Low - Cabeza

“- Simone: Sometimes they fall for what they think I am.
- George: And what do they think you are?
- Simone: What you think. A black whore.”
Cathy Tyson - Simone
Bob Hoskins - George