Lady Eve: If I were you, I would use some of that albino magic to get it done. Because if you don’t, my partners are going to turn you into dust. Do you understand?
Tobias: Yes.
Lady Eve: Good.

Jefferson: Khalil, they’re telling us that your spinal chord is now completely severed.
Khalil: What are you saying? Am I never going to walk again?
Jefferson: I’m a sorry son.

Man: Before you go, can I get a pic? And, make sure you light up.
Black Lightning: What? No!
[Black Lightning punches man].

Hey, oh this dude right here, he could turn off a light and be in bed before the room got dark.

Man

Grace: How'd it go?
Anissa: She took her key back.
Grace: I'm sorry.
Anissa: No, she was right, we were done.

Everybody wanna go to heaven but nobody wants to die.

Tobias

These are my streets, and nobody messes with my streets.

Tobias

With Black Lightning's help, and with God's help, we can save this community.

Holt

Sister LaWanda fought the good fight and now she's gone.

Holt

Anissa: Today I felt invincible, and now?
Grace: Back to reality? We're all just playing at being superheroes.
Anissa: It'd be nice though, superpowers.

I could have saved her. I could have saved so many. I'm living a lie. Living in the hopes that you, and me, and the girls could somehow live behind a white picket fence.

Jefferson

She was my student. I had a fantasy that when they leave me, their lives are better. That they could transcend this neighborhood, city, world. I saved more lives as the principal of Garfield High than I ever did as Black Lightning.

Jefferson

Black Lightning Season 1 Quotes

Lynn: You've been on the streets fighting The 100 for years. Let someone else do it. The girls need a father.
Jefferson: Baby, I promise. No more.

Black Lightning was the savior who kept our streets and our schools safe. He was hope personified. But he was also Jefferson Pierce, my father.

Anissa