- Stranger: Resistance is a symptom of the way things are, not the way things necessarily should be. Actual victory belongs to things that simply do not see failure. Let the path push you like a broken branch in a river's current.
- Stranger: I can tell your heart and mind is racing.
- Earnest 'Earn' Marks: I mean, I just keep losing. Like are some people just meant to lose to keep the balance of the universe?
- Stranger: Take a bite of this sandwich.
- Earnest 'Earn' Marks: Uh, nah, I think I'm good.
- Stranger: N - -a! If you don't take a bite of this sandwich...
- Earnest 'Earn' Marks: I want to manage you.
- Alfred 'Paper Boi' Miles: Manage? You know where the word "manage" come from?
- Earnest 'Earn' Marks: Manus. Latin for "hand."
- Alfred 'Paper Boi' Miles: Probably, but I'm gonna say no for the purpose of my argument. "Manage" came from the word "man." And, um, that ain't really your lane.
- Earnest 'Earn' Marks: My lane?
- Alfred 'Paper Boi' Miles: Yeah, man. I need Malcolm. You too Martin. You know what they did to him? They killed him.
- Earnest 'Earn' Marks: Didn't they kill Malcolm, too?
- Darius: No, no, they say that. But ain't nobody seen the body since the funeral.
- Earnest 'Earn' Marks: That's how funerals work.