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Frank Lucas: The man I worked for had one of the biggest companies in New York City. He didn't own his own company. White man owned it, so they owned him. Nobody owns me, though.
Frank Lucas: See, ya are what ya are in this world. That's either one of two things: Either you're somebody, or you ain't nobody.
Frank Lucas:This is my home. My country. Frank Lucas don't run from nobody. This is America.
Frank Lucas: I got Harlem. I took care of Harlem, so Harlem's gonna take care of me.

Nephew:I don't wanna play baseball no more.
Huey Lucas: [enters back patio] Frank, we got a problem.
Frank Lucas: [looks at his brother marire penis then looks back at his nephew] Well, what do you want?
Nephew: I want what you got Uncle Frank.
Nephew:I wanna be you.

Detective Richie Roberts :Good work Frank. You... want a drink or something? Celebrate?
Frank Lucas:You got any holy water?

Frank Lucas:Don't rub, blot it! You blot that shit!

Frank Lucas: What's with this outfit? You know what it says? You wanna know what it says? Arrest me!

Detective Richie Roberts :What the fuck is a microwave?

Detective Richie Roberts:Frank Lucas is the most dangerous man walking the streets of our city.

Detective Richie Roberts: Judges, lawyers, cops, politicians. They stop bringing dope into this country, about a hundred thousand people are gonna be out of a job.

Dominic Cattano: Success. It's got enemies. You can be successful and have enemies or you can be unsuccessful and have friends.

American Gangster

American Gangster is an Academy Award & Golden Globe -nominated 2007 crime film written by Steven Zaillian and directed by Ridley Scott.The movie stars Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. Washington portrays Frank Lucas , a real-life kingpin from Harlem who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War. Crowe portrays Richie Roberts , a detective attempting to bring down Lucas' drug empire. Filming was done on location in New York City.

American Gangster was released in the United States and Canada on November 2, 2007.