- Officer Reynolds: You like what you see?
- Hap Collins: [exhales] You got a nice cover. I don't know if I want to read the book.
- Officer Reynolds: How about just reading the synopsis?
- Hap Collins: I would if I could, but I can't. So I won't. I don't have my glasses.
- Bacon: You wanna die, you die for something. One of them Klan boys put a bullet in your head, now you've died for nothing.
- Hap Collins: Maybe you can enlighten something for me. What is it you people want, hmm? What does your world look like?
- Truman Brown: It's white.
- Hap Collins: But what is it you want? I know you can tear shit down. What is it you intend to build?
- Truman Brown: I'd just be wasting my breath.
- Hap Collins: You have no idea, do you?
- Hap Collins: You know, that is one thing I will never understand, is why black folks still believe, given what's happening. Given what's always been happening.
- Leonard Pine: See, the church is the only thing the white man won't take from the black man.
- Hap Collins: See, that that is why you and me make such a great team. I'm the pretty one, and you're the smart one.
- Leonard Pine: Oh, no, no. I'm the pretty AND the smart one.