One Night in Miami...

Angelo Dundee:
[between rounds in the ring] Finish him off!

Cassius Clay:
I'll finish him off when I'm good and ready. I told you he was ugly, you should see him up close, MAN he's ugly!

Sam Cooke:
It's time to take this party to the Fountainbleu, whoo! [starts singing] Havin' a party...

Malcolm X:
You've obviously forgotten, brother Cassius no longer drinks.

Sam Cooke:
And you obviously haven't smelled his breath in the last hour.

Jim Brown:
Say man, do you have any regrets, you know, hitchin' your cart to the Muslim train?

Jamaal:
Yeah, yes I think you could say I do.

Jim Brown:
Really.

Jamaal:
I regret that I didn't join when I was younger. This kid named Rollis used to chase me on the way home every damned day on the way. That's the reason I stopped goin'. I reckon if I'd've gotten with the bothers sooner, we could have nipped it in the bud and put our foot in Rollin's ass, know what I'm sayin'?

Jim Brown:
Yeah, but you don't need a religion for that. Kid, you could have just joined a gang.

Jamaal:
What's the difference?

Jim Brown:
[regarding the ice cream in the motel room] Well, what flavor is it?

Malcolm X:
Well, we have vanilla, Jimmy... [pulls a second carton out of the freezer] ...and vanilla.

Jim Brown:
Sh*t.

Sam Cooke:
How's that for irony?

Malcolm X:
Last time I checked, Brother Sam, vanilla was your flavor of choice.

Malcolm X:
What kind of message are you sending, though, by doing one show for white folks and a completely different show for black folks, Sam?

[Sam laughs]

Malcolm X:
No, listen to me, you're performing in places where the only black people not on stage are the ones serving the food.

Sam Cooke:
Don't you think I know that? I can't tell you how many times I wanted to reach out and punch somebody.

Malcolm X:
Then, then, then, then strike with the weapon that you have, man: your voice! Black people, we, we standing up! We, we speaking out!

Sam Cooke:
Umm hm.

Malcolm X:
Sam, you have possibly one of the most effective, beautiful outlets of us all. You're not using it to help the cause, brother.

Sam Cooke:
The hell I'm not! I got the masters to my songs. I started a label, I'm producing tons of black artists. Don't you think my determining my own creative and business destiny is every bit as inspiring to people as you standing up on a podium trying to piss 'em off?

Sam Cooke:
But you still obey them, so when they tell you to come out here to recruit Cassius to become a member of some...

Malcolm X:
I didn't make Cassius do anything! He came to me for insight, he had questions. His passion for Islam come from a pure...

Cassius Clay:
Passion... is kind of a strong word.

Sam Cooke:
Everybody talks about they wantin' a piece of the pie, well I don't. I want the goddamn recipe.

Sam Cooke:
[On Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind"] I felt I should have written that song.

Sam Cooke:
The only color they care about in the Cali is the color green.

Jim Brown:
This has been one strange f***ing night.

Jim Brown:
Y'all pulled out the knives. And if I get cut, I'm gonna hurt somebody.

Jim Brown:
[Cassius Clay is bouncing on the motel bed] What are you, a giant f***ing baby?