“- Judge Boshoff: Why do you people call yourselves black? You look more brown than black.
- Steve Biko: Why do you call yourselves white? You look more pink than white.”
Michael Turner - Judge Boshoff
Denzel Washington - Steve Biko

“- Judge: That girl is colored!
- Thelma Cleland: Honey, nobody 'colored' me! I was born this way!”
Parley Baer - Judge
Lynn Whitfield - Thelma Cleland

“- Meneer Chrome: The Larousse collection specializes in dark plants, often black. Primula Arricula. Canna Indica. Tulipfera Nigra. Anemone Atrocarrulea.
- Juliana: I would be unacceptable then in a Larousse collection.
- Meneer Chrome: Oh, I think you would be rare enough, exotic enough.
- Juliana: But my skin is white.”
Ewan Gordon McGregor - Meneer Chrome
Greta Scacchi - Juliana

“- Alex: Your ass is tanner than my face.
- Dante: It's not tan, kid, it's bronzed.”
Allen Covert - Alex
Peter Dante - Dante

“She had on a leather skirt and had a lot of hair on her arms. I like that a lot. That means a big bush.”
J. T. Walsh - Charles Bushman