So let me get this straight, last Wednesday you come to my house and give me a rose after you propose to this bitch?

Cookie [to Lucious]

You always coming to me for advice. You always coming to me for advice. I'm going to give you some. Don't ever underestimate me, little brother.

Jamal [to Hakeem]

Thanks to me is right. I just snitched on him in court. Dead bitch walking, that's me out here right now.

Cookie [to Agent Carter]

Carol: So you go and snitch and now you want to bring the drama back to me? Nah, you got to go. I got kids.
Cookie: I got kids too, Carol.
Carol: Girl, please. Your kids ain't real, they rich.

I don't wanna win the game. I wanna change it.

Hakeem

Dre, if you can't find the money for this, I really don't know what purpose you serve.

Lucious

Tyree, that's you? You take care of my baby boy, okay? If not, I'm holding. Name's Cookie. Ask about me.

Cookie

Lucious: You know, I am going to fight this thing, this disease, with everything I've got. But whatever happens, however long I've got left on this planet, I'm gonna make the most of it. Will you marry me?
Anika: Oh my God! Yes! Yes!

Lucious: You know something, you and I always made a real good team.
Cookie: You damn right we did. I make you better. Don't you forget that.
Lucious: Thank you, baby.
Cookie: Baby? You might want to clear that with Anika.
Lucious: Okay, baby mama.
Cookie: Still crazy, Lucious.

If you go through with it, I will dig up the dirt of your past, bury your Empire and everyone in it.

Baretti [to Lucious]

Hakeem, I can't make you love your mother, but you will respect her. Because she's lived through a hell that you have to understand if your music is every going to elevate to the place of poetry where it resonates in the hearts of its listeners.

Lucious

Lucious: You know, I never forgot about you.
Cookie: Keep telling yourself that, Lucious.

Empire Season 1 Quotes

Cookie's coming home.

Cookie

I started selling drugs when I was 9 years old in Philadelphia. I did it to feed myself. But it was the music that played in my head that kept me alive when I thought I was going to get shot. And it was the melodies that I dreamt about that keep me warm when I was sleeping in the streets.

Lucious