Laurence Fishburne credited as playing...
Bumpy Johnson
- Bumpy Johnson: You've been warned. Get ready for your final thrill. It's curtains, Dutch. The jig is up.
- Dutch Schultz: You're a dead fuckin' nigger!
- Johnny 'Figures' DiPalmero: [referring to a board] The dividing line could conceivably be the 135th Street, running east to west, Lennox Ave running north to south. Mr Schultz would take one territory and Mr Johnson, the other.
- Bumpy Johnson: I can't accept any proposals that allows Mr Schultz to continue to operate freely in Harlem. As I've said before I have no quarrel with any of you gentlemen. But if Mr Schultz insists on coming uptown, I have no choice but to make my presence felt... Downtown.
- Lucky Luciano: Well, you do realize that such a course of action would bring about your demise?
- Bumpy Johnson: The Dutchman's been trying to bring about my demise for quite some time.
- Lucky Luciano: I'm not Dutch.
- Bumpy Johnson: Yeah, you Lucky.
- Dutch Schultz: You got nuts the size of watermelons.
- Lucky Luciano: Dutch! Enough with the compliments.
- Bumpy Johnson: Perhaps you gentlemen to need some more time to consider my proposal.
- Dutch Schultz: We ain't gotta consider a fucking thing!
- [Picks up a green slip]
- Dutch Schultz: Your days are numbered. Your part of the expression. You're pretty smart for a nigger.
- Bumpy Johnson: Yeah so are you.
- Dutch Schultz: Ooh that's good-that's good. Insult the man that holds your destiny between his fingers.
- Bumpy Johnson: So you got some slips. I beat the wraphands down.
- Dutch Schultz: Oh, like the glorious Madam Queen policy?
- [Tears the green slip as he stands abruptly, then throws it on the table]
- Dutch Schultz: My judge is gonna send your black ass to fuckin' jail. *Jesus Christ*!
- [storms out]
- Lucky Luciano: [looking at Bumpy] Your move.
- Francine Hughes: I have one question. Why you gotta involve yourself in numbers?
- Bumpy Johnson: I mean, what would you have me do? Shine shoes? Carry shoes down at Grand Central? I'm a colored man, and white folks ain't left me nothing out here but the underworld.