Blood Diamond Quotes

Maddy Bowen: My dad came home from the war in '69. It took him about... twenty years to get right.
Danny Archer: [Scoffs bitterly, Maddy looks at him questioningly] You Americans - you Americans love to talk about your feelings, huh? So, what does that mean? What? You've got a thing for messed up vets now?
Maddy Bowen: [Angrily] Shut

up.
[They stare at each other]
Maddy Bowen: You lost both your parents.
Danny Archer: That's a - That's a polite way of putting it, ja. Mum was raped and shot and um... Dad was decapitated and hung from a hook in the barn. I was nine
[leans back, scrunches his eyes, then laughs]
Danny Archer: . Boo-hoo, right?

[Maddy stares]
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.
[Leans forward, emotional, voice breaking]
Danny Archer: It's uh... Ah, What's the point, huh?
[Puts his head in his hands]
Maddy

Bowen: [Maddy reaches forward and takes his hand. He looks up, and they stare at each other, their hands entwined]

Danny Archer: American, huh?
Maddy Bowen: Guilty.
Danny Archer: Well, Americans usually are.
Maddy Bowen: ...Says the white South African?
Danny Archer: Ts ts ts ts. I'm from Rhodesia!
Maddy Bowen: We say Zimbabwe now, don't we?
Danny

Archer: Do we?
Maddy Bowen: Last time I checked.

[last title card]
Title card: In January 2003, forty nations signed "The Kimberley Process" - an effort to stem the flow of conflict diamonds.
Title card: But illegal diamonds are still finding their way to market. It is up to the consumer to insist that a diamond is conflict-free.
Title card: Sierra Leone is at peace.
Title card: There are still 200,000 child soldiers

in Africa.

Soldier: Hello, hello, hello, hello!
[walks over to Danny]
Soldier: Papers, please.
Danny Archer: Danny Archer. National Geographic.
[hands officer documents]
Soldier: You're crossing into Liberia.
Danny Archer: Uh-I've got a letter from the Minister of Interior, and a Liberian visa as well. I'm doing a story on the

"Maraquez"
[takes out smokes]
Danny Archer: , who as you know, are allowed to cross the border in order to get into the grazing grounds. You ever, read National Geographic huh?
[takes one, and offers a smoke]
Danny Archer: [Officer, taking the whole packet, gives back documents, takes out knife, and inspects the goats. After a while,

finds diamonds sewn into the back of a goat]
Soldier: [takes the diamons, walks back to Danny] You are under arrest... for smuggling.
Danny Archer: No, no, listen here my friend, listen here all right. I'm good friends with Colonel Coetzee, Colonel Coetzee would not be pleased that you've interfered with his business. Now, you know who I am, all right? You don't

wanna make trouble for me or my friends right? Now look, why don't I just look the other way, all right, you take one or two of those stones, you get something lekker for the wife, or maybe the mistress all right? We solve the problem right here?
Soldier: [steps forward] We go back to Free Town, and ask Colonel Coetzee how he wishes to thank his business associates.
[looks back]

Soldier: Guys, take him away.