“Crash” quotes

“- Peter: We didn't get any coffee that you didn't want and I didn't order, and this is evidence of racial discrimination? Did you happen to notice our waitress was black?
- Anthony: And black women don't think in stereotypes? You tell me something man. When was the last time you met one who didn't think she knew everything about your lazy ass?...” (continue)(continue reading)
Larenz Tate - Peter
Ludacris - Anthony

“- Cameron: You know, sooner or later, you are gonna have to find out what it is really like to be black.
- Christine: Fuck you man, like you know! The closest you ever came to being black, Cameron, was watching the Cosby Show.”
Terrence Howard - Cameron
Thandie Newton - Christine

You see, back in the '60s, we had smart black articulate black men. Like Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Fred Hampton. These brothers were speaking out, and people were listening. And then, the FBI said, "Oh, no! We can't have that! I know! Let's give the niggers some music by a bunch of mumbling idiots, and sooner or later they'll... (continue)(continue reading)

Ludacris - Anthony

“I am angry all the time... and I don't know why.”
Sandra Bullock - Jean

“It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.”
Don Cheadle - Graham

“- Anthony: No, no, no, take that voodoo-ass thing off of there right now!
- Peter: I know you just didn't call St. Christopher voodoo. Man's the patron saint of travelers, dog.”
Ludacris - Anthony
Larenz Tate - Peter

“They think we're Arab. When did Persian become Arab?”
Marina Sirtis - Shereen

“- Anthony: You had a conversation with God, huh? What did God say? Go forth, my son, and leave big slobbery suction rings on every dashboard you find? Why the hell do you do that?
- Peter: Look at the way your crazy ass drive, then ask me that again!”
Ludacris - Anthony
Larenz Tate - Peter

“- Jean: Do you want to hear something funny?
- Maria: What's that Mrs. Jean?
- Jean: You're the best friend I've got.”
Sandra Bullock - Jean
Yomi Perry - Maria

“Look at me. You embarrass me. You embarrass yourself.”

Terrence Howard - Cameron

Listen to it man. Nigga this, Nigga that. You think white go around callin' each other "honky" all day, man? "Hey, honky, how's business?" - "Going great, cracker, we're diversifying!".

Ludacris - Anthony

“That waitress sized us up in two seconds. We're black and black people don't tip. So she wasn't gonna waste her time. Now somebody like that? Nothing you can do to change their mind.”
Ludacris - Anthony

“I know all the sociological reasons why, per capita eight times more black men are incarcerated than white men... Schools are a disgrace, lack of opportunity, bias in the judicial system, all that stuff... But still... but still, it's... it's gotta get to you, I mean, on a gut level, as a black man. They just can't keep their hands out of the...” (continue)(continue reading)
William Fichtner - Flanagan

“- Anthony: If anybody should be scared around here, it's us: We're the only two black faces surrounded by a sea of over-caffeinated white people, patrolled by the triggerhappy LAPD. So you tell me, why aren't we scared?
- Peter: Because we have guns?
- Anthony: You could be right.”
Ludacris - Anthony
Larenz Tate - Peter