diff --git a/cinderclient/apiclient/base.py b/cinderclient/apiclient/base.py
index 37cfaf100..cdf06c849 100644
--- a/cinderclient/apiclient/base.py
+++ b/cinderclient/apiclient/base.py
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ class CrudManager(BaseManager):
 
     def _filter_kwargs(self, kwargs):
         """Drop null values and handle ids."""
-        for key, ref in six.iteritems(kwargs.copy()):
+        for key, ref in kwargs.copy().items():
             if ref is None:
                 kwargs.pop(key)
             else:
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ class Resource(RequestIdMixin):
         return None
 
     def _add_details(self, info):
-        for (k, v) in six.iteritems(info):
+        for (k, v) in info.items():
             try:
                 try:
                     setattr(self, k, v)
diff --git a/cinderclient/apiclient/exceptions.py b/cinderclient/apiclient/exceptions.py
index 565c47e8a..71146c90f 100644
--- a/cinderclient/apiclient/exceptions.py
+++ b/cinderclient/apiclient/exceptions.py
@@ -23,8 +23,6 @@ Exception definitions.
 import inspect
 import sys
 
-import six
-
 
 class ClientException(Exception):
     """The base exception class for all exceptions this library raises.
@@ -396,7 +394,7 @@ class HttpVersionNotSupported(HttpServerError):
 # _code_map contains all the classes that have http_status attribute.
 _code_map = dict(
     (getattr(obj, 'http_status', None), obj)
-    for name, obj in six.iteritems(vars(sys.modules[__name__]))
+    for name, obj in vars(sys.modules[__name__]).items()
     if inspect.isclass(obj) and getattr(obj, 'http_status', False)
 )
 
diff --git a/cinderclient/auth_plugin.py b/cinderclient/auth_plugin.py
index 2101b93bf..f6efb0ba9 100644
--- a/cinderclient/auth_plugin.py
+++ b/cinderclient/auth_plugin.py
@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@
 import logging
 import pkg_resources
 
-import six
-
 from cinderclient import exceptions
 from cinderclient import utils
 
@@ -51,7 +49,7 @@ def load_auth_system_opts(parser):
     This function will try to populate the parser with options from the
     available plugins.
     """
-    for name, auth_plugin in six.iteritems(_discovered_plugins):
+    for name, auth_plugin in _discovered_plugins.items():
         add_opts_fn = getattr(auth_plugin, "add_opts", None)
         if add_opts_fn:
             group = parser.add_argument_group("Auth-system '%s' options" %
diff --git a/cinderclient/utils.py b/cinderclient/utils.py
index 31e94448a..78adbd904 100644
--- a/cinderclient/utils.py
+++ b/cinderclient/utils.py
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ def print_dict(d, property="Property", formatters=None):
     pt.align = 'l'
     formatters = formatters or {}
 
-    for r in six.iteritems(d):
+    for r in d.items():
         r = list(r)
 
         if r[0] in formatters:
diff --git a/cinderclient/v3/pools.py b/cinderclient/v3/pools.py
index 2f7260588..5303f8422 100644
--- a/cinderclient/v3/pools.py
+++ b/cinderclient/v3/pools.py
@@ -15,8 +15,6 @@
 
 """Pools interface (v3 extension)"""
 
-import six
-
 from cinderclient import base
 
 
@@ -45,7 +43,7 @@ class PoolManager(base.Manager):
             # be attributes of the pool itself.
             for pool in pools:
                 if hasattr(pool, 'capabilities'):
-                    for k, v in six.iteritems(pool.capabilities):
+                    for k, v in pool.capabilities.items():
                         setattr(pool, k, v)
 
                     # Remove the capabilities dictionary since all of its