The Best Capheus Onyango Quotes

Kala: The first time I went into a house like this in Bombay they had no beds, but they had a television as big as this. I mean, how can a TV be more important than a bed?
Capheus: Ah, that's simple. The bed keeps you in a slum. The flat screen takes you out.

Sun: Call me a bitch one more time...
Capheus: ...And I will kill you.

Capheus: Who can say if it is we who make the choice, or the choice that makes us?

Capheus: Once, when I was eight my father's enemies came to our house. They had big machetes, like this. My mother had a knife, like this. They wanted revenge for what my father's tribe had done. They wanted me. My father was gone. She was alone. But she put me behind her, and she faced these men. They knew they could kill her. But they also looked her in the eyes and knew she would take at least one of them with her. And they left. Because none of them wanted to be that one.

Capheus: Life and death are always so mixed up together, in the same way some beginning are endings and some endings become beginnings.

Riley: I couldn't go to the funeral. He was my husband, I loved him, but I - I couldn't say goodbye.
Capheus: But you have now.
Riley: I don't believe it's possible. Death doesn't let you say goodbye. It just carves holes in your life in your future in your heart.