“- Seaweed: Livin' in the ghetto, black is everywhere you go. Who'd have thought I'd love a girl whose skin was white as winter snow?
- Penny Pingleton: In my ivory tower, life was just a Hostess snack, but now I've tasted chocolate, and I'm never goin' back!”
Elijah Kelley - Seaweed
Amanda Bynes - Penny Pingleton

“Love, as it exists in society, is merely the mingling of two whims and the contact of two skins.”
Mila Parély - Geneviève de Marras

“- Penny Pingleton: Oh, Seaweed, you do care! I was afraid the colors of our skin would keep us apart.
- Seaweed: No but these knots might.”
Amanda Bynes - Penny Pingleton
Elijah Kelley - Seaweed

“You think like a prisoner. You're white as snow and you think like a slave.”

Harry Lennix - Mrs. Silk

“- Spence: You worried about saving your own skin?
- Sam: I am. It covers my body.”
Sean Bean - Spence
Robert De Niro - Sam