- [to a black couple who tipped him for washing their windshield]
- Matthew: Thank you. May all your children be white.
- Little Leroy, Fort Washington Bully: [sees Matthew handing out smokes] Meeeooow. Kitty cat, I'm always where th' money'zat
- [pause]
- Little Leroy, Fort Washington Bully: Doncha know th' Bowery rate of exchange, boy?
- Matthew: No.
- Little Leroy, Fort Washington Bully: We here, in Washington Heights, that's in th' northern tip of the island of Manhattan, but we still operate at the Bowery rate.
- Matthew: Yeah, I don't know it.
- Little Leroy, Fort Washington Bully: Twenty cents, baby. Two thin dimes a smoke.
- [holds smokes out to Matthew]
- Little Leroy, Fort Washington Bully: These my loosies. See, I th' loosies representative 'round here, y'understand? Now, y'settin' a bad example, boy. Y'takin' unfair advantage of dis here black man. I mean, how can a man compete yuh givin' it away fuh'nuthin'? See, it takes years to establish a rate of exchange an' yuh'destroyin' it in one night. Now you declare economic war on me
- [gets up to grab Matthew]
- Little Leroy, Fort Washington Bully: , I declare it right back. You strike th' first blow, now it's my turn.
- Jerry: This here little pill made by Mr. Johnson & Johnson. Th' God's true representative on earth. It ain't th' churches, or them synagogues, or the Pope... That jus' propaganda. It's th' pharmaceutical companies... Mr. Johnson & Johnson separatin' this black man from his pain. Yeh...
- [takes pill]
- Jerry: Hallaluyah!
- City Employee: [thumping on door] Let's go! Let's go! We got th' building comin' down! Everybody move it out!
- City Employee: [thumping on door] We got th' building coming down! Everybody out! Let's go! Move it out!
- City Employee: [thumping on door] Let's go, folks! Move it out!... Move it out! We've got five minutes!
- City Employee: Building's comin' down! We gotta move! C'mon now! Let's go, folks! Move it out!