Nick Peretti Quotes in New Jack City (1991)

Nick Peretti: Drugs ain't a black thing, or a white thing. It's a death thing. Death don't give a shit about color.

Nick Peretti: Is this one of those black things?

Scotty Appleton: Operation's gone, Nino's loose, Pookie's dead. I got Pookie killed, man.

Nick Peretti: Cut out this self-pitying shit about you killing Pookie. If anyone killed him it was me. I could see it.

Scotty Appleton: How the hell you gonna to tell me you killed Pookie?

Nick Peretti: Do you remember when you said I didn't care? When what the hell was I doing at Pookie's funeral anyway? Remember? I used to be Pookie.

Scotty Appleton: How the hell you used to be Pookie?

Nick Peretti: I was poor white-trash Pookie. This whole drug shit, it's not a black thing, it's not a white thing. It's a death thing. Death don't give a shit about color. You don't have to like me. Hell, I don't even know if I like you. But we're in this together now, partner.

Scotty Appleton: You know, a drug dealer is the worst kind of brother. He won't sell it to his sister, he won't sell it to his mother. But he'll sell it to one of his boys in the street. I don't know about you, but I'm ready to kill Nino Brown. Are you with me?

Nick Peretti: I'm ahead of you.

[Scotty and Nick clink beer bottles]

[as Frankie Needles departs from a nightclub, Nick and Scottie stick him up]

Nick Peretti: Behind Door Number One, your head explodes like a melon!

Scotty Appleton: Behind door Number Two, you hook us up with Gee Money and get the prize, Nino Brown.