Oz Season 1 quotes

(Last Words) I am really not ready for this. Oh, man.

Alvarez

Father, where was God when my son died?

Mukada

Same place He was when His own son died.

Vernon Schillinger

So the state's gonna let Keane choose which way he's gonna go out. Me, I'd take hanging.

What about lethal injection?

Vernon Schillinger

That's for pussies.

They say that lethal injection causes no pain. How do they know? Did someone come back from the dead and say they didn't feel anything?

My ex was a big hunter, he was always going off with his buddies so I said to him one time to take me. After some complaining, he did. So I got there in the forest with this big hunky shotgun and I fired at a deer. Hit it dead on. So I went over to this thing and I leaned down and this deer looked up at me with these eyes, these eyes like flashlights. I knelt beside it and I held it's head and I whispered, "I'm sorry." And like batteries going bad the light in its eyes flickered a little bit and went out. For the next two years we were married, every time I walked into the den I had to look at this fucking deer's dead eyes. I had to dust them. When we got divorced that's all I asked for, the deer's head. Then I buried it.

Ray Mukada

If you love women so much, why do you kill them?

Because when you love someone, they own you, they possess you. I will not be possessed.

Ray Mukada

I'm here to give you absolution for your sins. Do you wish to be absolved?

Fuck, yes!

Augustus Hill

There's this brother on death row somewheres, he checked in when he was 16. He sat there another 16 years while the courts and lawyers argued about this and that. While he waited he painted a mural on his wall. For all those years he painted, not letting a soul see what he was up to. Finally, when he was 32 and had spent more life on death row than in his mama's house, all his appeals were exhausted. He was about to die. As he was about to be let out for the final time, he finally unveiled his masterpiece. All there was were six words. "Death is certain, life is not". The next day the hacks painted over it. Peace out.

I'm gonna give you ten minutes to get your hand off my dick!

Schillinger

[upon seeing Beecher dressed in drag] My God! You're even prettier than I thought you'd be!

Nino

You like tits?

Who doesn't?

Nino

My tits are firm and round. Maybe you could suck my tits?

You know, I know a lot of brothers who would love to.

Hill

Tits! That's what we call drugs. 60% of the violence in prison is due to tits! Either people not paying their dues or people trying to control the traffic. The traffic. (scoffs) Lately, here in Oz, the traffic has been bumper to bumper!

You have to take something, or you'll die!

Said

Oh believe me, doctor, I have no intention of dying!

Augustus Hill

I ain't saying drugs are good. But when your past is past and your present sucks and your future holds nothing but broken promises and dead dreams, the drugs'll kill the pain. Listen up, America, you ain't ever gonna get rid of drugs until you cure pain.

I always thought Keane and Markstrom were holding you back. From the get-go, you were a guy that sees how the world gets made. Adebisi. Ends in "I". Sure you're not Italian?

Simon Adebisi

Schibetta ends in "A". Maybe you African.

Bob Rebadow

I'm sorry that you're ill.

Kareem Said

And who told you that I was ill?

Bob Rebadow

God.

Kareem Said

Oh, yes. You talk to God.

Bob Rebadow

When he's in town.

Kareem Said

Well, in Islam, we believe that only two people spoke to God directly. Mohammad], and praise be to him, and Moses. So, you see, you are in excellent company.

Bob Rebadow

You think I'm lying or deluded.

Kareem Said

Oh, yes.

Bob Rebadow

I may well be. I do know sometimes I can see inside men's souls.

Kareem Said

And can you see into mine, old man?

Bob Rebadow

Yes.

Kareem Said

And what is there?

Bob Rebadow

Anger.

Kareem Said

Yes, I am angry. I am angry at a society that cripples my people and infects their bodies.

Bob Rebadow

No, you're angry at God.

Kareem Said

I am not. My illness is Allah's will and I accept the bad as well as the good that God gives me.

Bob Rebadow

Still, you're angry at him and afraid. Afraid of dying.

Kareem Said

That is not true.

Bob Rebadow

You watched Jefferson Keane die, die gladly. Keane embraced death like a lover, like a traveler going home. You saw that and you were afraid. You realized you aren't as willing to go.

If you gotta go, you gotta go high.