- Peoples Hernandez: This is Egyptian Cotton, motherfucker... two-twenty thread. That's like half your shitty-ass paycheck, okay?
- John Shaft: You wouldn't know Egyptian cotton if the Pharaoh himself sent it to you, you knockoff-wearing motherfucker!
- Peoples Hernandez: You play golf?
- [Walter Wade Jr. nods]
- Peoples Hernandez: Golf is phat... Tiger Wooo, Tiger Wooo, I like him.
- Peoples Hernandez: You're not a cop anymore.
- John Shaft: Do you think that makes me less dangerous, or more dangerous?
- John Shaft: Yo, Luger, what's up with the "cornbread" talk, man?
- Luger: And your problem is what?
- John Shaft: Nazis with badges, that's my problem!
- Luger: [laughs] "Nazis?" You gotta lighten up, Shaft. I talk like this all the time... but I see your point. Maybe I should take an "ethnic sensitivity" workshop, huh? Fuck you!
- John Shaft: Maybe I should "workshop" my foot up your ass!
- [Trey starts seizing on the gurney]
- Walter Wade, Jr.: Homeboy's got rhythm, huh?
- John Shaft: What?
- [Shaft punches Wade in the face]
- Walter Wade, Jr.: What? Was it something I said? I think my nose is broke!
- Lt. Kearney: I've been waiting for this. You are gone from this precinct!
- John Shaft: For what?
- John Shaft: [punches Wade again] For that?
- John Shaft: Who lost your rap sheet for you?
- Leon: You...
- John Shaft: Who got you that Jets tryout?
- Leon: You...
- John Shaft: Who got you that gig at the club?
- Leon: You.
- John Shaft: Who delivers ten times outta ten?
- Leon: Alright, dawg... You.
- [Walter Wade Jr. walks into Peoples' house, trying to look cool]
- Peoples Hernandez: You tryin' to blend in or something? You look like a fucking duck hunter.
- Peoples Hernandez: My name is Peoples. You know why they call me that?
- Walter Wade, Jr.: [In a patronizing tone] 'Cuz you's always takes care of you's peoples?
- Peoples Hernandez: More or less.
- Peoples Hernandez: Yo Shaft, I'm gonna put so many lawyers in your ass, you're gonna think they opened a branch office up there.
- John Shaft: [passing Carmen on his way toward gang members] Anybody lookin' to maintain their employment with the NYPD
- [draws his gun]
- John Shaft: might be in their best interest to leave now...
- Walter Wade, Jr.: [Showing him his black eye] I got fucking mugged I have no money
- Peoples Hernandez: I hear you but the wheels are already in motion
- Peoples Hernandez: I guess you've got to earn it back
- Walter Wade, Jr.: How?
- Peoples Hernandez: [Fat Man hands him a bag filled with drugs] Ounces are a thousand eight balls are two eighty its already bagged and I'll tell you like I tell all my boys you cut it anymore than it already is you can say goodbye to repeat customers
- Walter Wade, Jr.: You've got to be shitting me
- Peoples Hernandez: You keep coming back we should be even Steven in six eight months
- Luger: [to Shaft] Why don't you pick a color? Black or blue?
- Carmen Vasquez: [to Luger] Hey, fuck you
- John Shaft: [to Luger] How about I make you both?
- Luger: [after robbing Walter in disguise] How'd I sound?
- John Shaft: How did you sound?
- Luger: "Freeze mofo I'll bust a cap in your dome"
- John Shaft: You are a pure notorious P.I.G, how much we got?
- Luger: [looking through the bag] forty two thousand , it's a lot of cash for a simple murder around here
- Peoples Hernandez: You got a boat?
- Walter Wade, Jr.: I had one
- Peoples Hernandez: What kind of boat you had?
- Walter Wade, Jr.: Boston Whaler
- Peoples Hernandez: You've been around the world right?
- Walter Wade, Jr.: [Nods] yeah
- Peoples Hernandez: You know something, I've got money longer than train smoke, I've never been on an airplane my whole God damn life
- Walter Wade, Jr.: [Pointing to Peoples' tattoo on his neck] let me ask you something? What's that mean?
- Peoples Hernandez: Five boroughs, five families, one love
- Walter Wade, Jr.: [Chuckles] Ok
- Peoples Hernandez: You're an interesting motherfucker, do you have a business card or something?
- Peoples Hernandez: You know in this neighborhood, I am the motherfucking king snake, but the thing of it is, I go downtown to take a girl out and show her the sights, I walk into a restaurant and my stomach is in a knot, my teeth is clenched, my hands are in a fist, I don't fit in down there, people look at me and size me up, so ten minutes into it I can't wait to come back home
- Walter Wade, Jr.: Ok
- Peoples Hernandez: I would kill to be you, go where you go, do what you do so this what I propose: the jewelry and shit, you go hock the flash and pay me the cash, I'm going to take it, but what I really want is for you to start taking me downtown with you, I want you to start taking me wherever you go
- Walter Wade, Jr.: You mean like hangout together? Take you to the Harvard club? What the hell are you talking about?
- Walter Wade, Jr.: I need someone located
- Peoples Hernandez: "Located"? You mean found? Found then what?
- [Walter looks at the gun around Tattoo's belt]
- Peoples Hernandez: that's going to cost you
- Walter Wade, Jr.: [Takes out a money belt filled with jewelry] I had it all appraised it'll cash out to about forty thousand
- Peoples Hernandez: When I say "me", "me ", is this
- [Opens the door to a room showing him half naked women packaging drugs]
- Walter Wade, Jr.: Oh
- Peoples Hernandez: I was you to front for me, get me some upscale customers
- Walter Wade, Jr.: If it's really important to you, you can tell everybody you've got a rich white boy on a rope I really don't care, I think you're too much of your own product, but drugs?, no fucking way
- Peoples Hernandez: [Telling Roselli and Groves about Walter Wade, Jr] This guy comes in here and his got his drawer stuffed with jewelry and he asked me if I could locate somebody? I say "yeah" because he's kind of like a celebrity but finding people is not my thing so here's what I propose: so why don't I sell contract to you? The guy says this shit will cash out to twenty grand I take half and you'll take half, it'll be the easiest money you can ever make
- [Trey and his friends walk in the restaurant]
- Walter Wade, Jr.: Yo.
- [Wade does not get Trey's attention]
- Walter Wade, Jr.: [patronizingly] Excuse me, sir.
- [Trey is still unaware that he is being addressed]
- Walter Wade, Jr.: YO!
- [Trey turns around, finally noticing]
- Trey Howard: [calmly] Whassup?
- Walter Wade, Jr.: They don't serve no malt liquor here.
- [Wade's entourage laughs]
- Walter Wade, Jr.: No. Malt. Liquor. All right?
- Walter Wade, Jr.: [corrects himself] No...
- Walter Wade, Jr.: [imitates the African-American Vernacular accent] ... All riiight?
- [His entourage laughs louder; Trey is mildly upset]
- Walter Wade, Jr.: [exaggerates some more] ALL RIIIIIIIGHT?
- [Trey's friends feel uncomfortable at the situation]
- Trey's Friend: What the hell is your problem, buddy?
- Ivy: [to Trey] Let's go. I wanna go.
- Trey Howard: [assuringly] No. No. It's fine. OK? Don't even worry about it.
- Big Raymond: Yo, Shaft, you got a call. Guy says it's urgent. I think it's the clinic. I believe the test results may have come back.
- John Shaft: Today we find out if I'm your daddy or the German shepherd.
- Big Raymond: Ooh. Pretty good. Ha, ha.