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.
Danny Archer: I like to get kissed before I get fucked.
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...
Danny Archer: In America, it's bling bling. But out here it's bling bang.
Danny Archer: T.I.A. This is Africa.
Captain Poison: You think I'm a demon, but that's only because I have lived in Hell.
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.
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...
Maddy Bowen: Smuggler? Danny Archer: How about 'Soldier of Fortune'... or is that too much of a cliché?
M'Ed: This my country, man. We here long 'fore you came - long after you gone.
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 st...
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 plantain...
Danny Archer: So you're a fisherman, ha? What do you catch mostly? Solomon Vandy: Fish.
Solomon Vandy: I understand White people want our diamonds, yes. But how can my own people do this to each other?
Maddy Bowen: The people back home wouldn't buy a ring if they knew it cost someone else their hand.
[about her article about the war] Solomon Vandy: So when people in your country read it, they will come help, yes? Maddy Bowen: Probably not.
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.
