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Danny Archer: Sometimes I wonder... will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize... God left this place a long time ago.

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Danny Archer: I like to get kissed before I get fucked.

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Maddy Bowen: Tell me where you are, and I will come help you.
Danny Archer: [after seeing his blood mix in with the red earth] I'm right where I'm supposed to be...

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Danny Archer: In America, it's bling bling. But out here it's bling bang.

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Danny Archer: T.I.A. This is Africa.

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Danny Archer: So you're a fisherman, ha? What do you catch mostly?
Solomon Vandy: Fish.

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Danny Archer: So you think because your intentions are good, they'll spare you, huh?
Benjamin Kapanay: My heart always told me that people are inherently good. My experience suggests otherwise. But what about you, Mr. Archer? In your long career as a journalist, would you say that people are mostly good?
Danny Archer: No. I'd say

they're just people.
Benjamin Kapanay: Exactly. It is what they do that makes them good or bad. A moment of love, even in a bad man, can give meaning to a life. None of us knows whose path will lead us to God.

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Captain Poison: You think I'm a demon, but that's only because I have lived in Hell.

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Colonel Coetzee: This red earth, it's in our skin. The Shona say the colour comes from all the blood that's been spilled fighting over the land. This is home. You'll never leave Africa.

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Danny Archer: Let me tell you something. You sell blood diamonds too.
Maddy Bowen: Really?
Danny Archer: Yeah.
Maddy Bowen: Tell me, how is that?
Danny Archer: Who do you think buys the stones that I bring out? Dreamy American girls who all want a storybook wedding and a big, shiny rock

like the ones in the advertisements of your politically-correct magazines. So, please, don't come here and make judgments on me, all right?

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Solomon Vandy: Dia, What are you doing? Dia! Look at me, look at me. What are you doing? You are Dia Vendy, of the proud Mende tribe. You are a good boy who loves soccer and school. Your mother loves you so much. She waits by the fire making plantains, and red palm oil stew with your sister N'Yanda and the new baby. The cows wait for you. And Babu, the wild dog who minds no one

but you. I know they made you do bad things, but you are not a bad boy. I am your father who loves you. And you will come home with me and be my son again.

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Maddy Bowen: Smuggler?
Danny Archer: How about 'Soldier of Fortune'... or is that too much of a cliché?

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Maddy Bowen: The entire country's at war. Why should I help this one person?
[pause]
Maddy Bowen: I can't believe I just said that.

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Maddy Bowen: The people back home wouldn't buy a ring if they knew it cost someone else their hand.

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Maddy Bowen: The world is falling apart and all we hear about is blowjob-gate.
Danny Archer: When was the last time the world wasn't falling apart, huh?
Maddy Bowen: Uh, a cynic. Why don't you sit down and make me miserable?

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[to Maddy Bowen]
Danny Archer: You come here with your laptop computers, your malaria medicine and you little bottles of hand sanitizer and think you can change the outcome, huh?

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Solomon Vandy: I understand White people want our diamonds, yes. But how can my own people do this to each other?

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Commander Zero: You get something for me?
Danny Archer: And yourself get something for me, huh?
Commander Zero: You bring the plane come first.
Danny Archer: Are you craze? You get to pay me first for them.
[Commander Zero hands Danny a small bag of diamonds, Danny checks its content]

Danny Archer: This no fine, huh? This no fine.
Commander Zero: This no more you get!
Danny Archer: Then your boys then can use one ol' rotten AK them against them government troops and their new weapons them, huh?
Commander Zero: Maybe I could just kill you and take away what you bring back!

Danny Archer: Then you get one more dead body instead of aeroplane way full with grenade launchers. So I think I go to them government then, huh? Them government, at least them go pay me, huh?
Commander Zero: Wait, wait. Wait, my friend. This is the thing you want? Here.
[Commander Zero pours diamonds from a can in Danny's hands]

Commander Zero: So many I not know what do with them all. - Hey, Archer, next time, you bring satellite TV, eh? I wanna see Baywatch.
Danny Archer: Ja. Ja, ja.

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M'Ed: This my country, man. We here long 'fore you came - long after you gone.

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Danny Archer: You risk my life like that again... and I'll peel your face back off your head. You understand?