The Best Erik Killmonger Quotes

Erik: [to T'Challa] Wassup, cuz?

Erik: When I tell you to do something, I mean that shit.

T'Challa: You will destroy the world, Wakanda included!
Erik: The world took everything away from me! Everything I ever loved! But I'ma make sure we're even. I'ma track down anyone who would even think of being loyal to you! And I'ma put their ass in the dirt, right next to Zuri!

Ulysses: You... you want to go to Wakanda? They're savages!
[shows scarred brand]
Ulysses: This is what they do to people like us.
Erik: I don't worry about no brand. Check these out. Each one is for a kill.
[shows scars on his arms]
Ulysses: You can scar yourself as much as you like. To them, you'll just be an outsider. Your crazy to think that you can just walk in there. And to think I saw you as a crazy American...
[Klaue laughs, Killmonger shoots Klaue in the head]

Erik: I lived my entire life waiting for this moment. I trained, I lied, I killed just to get here. I killed in America, Afghanistan, Iraq... I took life from my own brothers and sisters right here on this continent! And all this death just so I could kill you.

T'Challa: We can still heal you...
Erik: Why, so you can lock me up? Nah. Just bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from ships, 'cause they knew death was better than bondage.

Erik: I've waited my whole life for this. The world's going to start over. I'MA BURN IT ALL!

N'Jobu: No tears for me, son?
Erik: People die every day. That's just part of life around here.