- Horsemouth: I-man serve Selassie I continually. No matter what the weak heart say. And I know that I & I is like a tree, plant by the river of water, and not even the dog that piss against the wall of Babylon shall escape this judgment. For I & I know that all of the youth shall witness the day that Babylon shall fall!
- Jacob Miller: [brandishing a switchblade] Don't say nothing, y 'hear? Don't say nothing! The man eat up my food, man!
- Horsemouth: No, man!
- Jacob Miller: No, Rasta, Me no love that, man, me no love that! Me screw for that! You know, Rasta. Cho. I-man vex, Rasta.
- Horsemouth: Just cool, man - me have money, man.
- Madgie: Cool? The youth them no ask you fe no food, man! Them ask *me* fe food!
- Joe Gibbs: Give you two-hundred of my record? I don't give record - I *sell* record!
- Horsemouth: Give thanks, Higher.
- Higher: I-wah.
- Horsemouth: True Rasta.
- Higher: How the-I feeling now?
- Horsemouth: I-man feel I-ney now.
- Higher: You must feel upful some more. You will feel more upful within time. The man is advancing - him just survive.
- Horsemouth: True, true.
- Higher: I-rey. Within a time I and I can get a bath.
- Horsemouth: I like the-I to cook up some Ital, Rasta.
- Higher: The Ital scene is coverage. One need the Ital in ever'ting to survive. The Ital don't stop. So I and I forward within this time.
- Horsemouth's Grandmother: Lord have mercy upon my grandson!