Stringer Bell quotes from The Wire

Stringer

What you doing?

Robert's Rules says we got to have minutes of the meeting. These the minutes.

Stringer

Nigga, is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?

Stringer

Make this quick, I got a meet.

Oh, fuck your meet! You're harder to get at than my fat wife's cunt.

Stringer

I ain't strapped. I ain't involved, yo. I ain't involved in none of that gangster bullshit.

Stringer

What y'all niggers want, man? Huh? Money?

Stringer

IS THAT IT? Cause if it is, I can be a better friend to y'all alive.

Omar

You still don't get it, do you? This ain't about your money, bro. Your boy gave you up. That's right. And we ain't had to torture his ass neither!

Stringer

[ruefully] Well it seem like... I can't say nuttin' to change y'all minds.

Stringer

Well, get on with it, motherfu...

Stringer

Where Avon at?

Slim Charles

He'll be along shortly.

Stringer

That's good, 'cuz I came to see you anyway.

Slim Charles

What'chu need?

Stringer

...I need you to hit somebody.

Slim Charles

Who we hittin'?

Stringer

Clay Davis.

Slim Charles

The Clay Davis? Downtown Clay Davis?

Stringer

That supposed to mean somethin' to me, man? That nigga need to be got.

Slim Charles

Shit, String, murder ain't no thing... but this here is some assassination shit, man!

Stringer

Listen, I tell you you gettin' somebody, you gettin' them. I ain't askin'!

Slim Charles

Damn, String, I don't know-

Stringer

Nigga, I gotta remind you who the fuck you work for?!

Avon

Ayo. I think Slim gon' have to sit this one out, boss. So you finna go hit a state senator now, huh? Yo, you kill a downtown nigga like that, the whole world gon' stand up and take notice. I'm talkin' about the state police, federals, all of that! You need a Day of the Jackal-type mothafucka, basically, to do some shit like that, not a rumble-tumble nigga like Slim.

Stringer

That nigga took our money, man.

Avon

I seen it comin'.

Stringer

Well, heh... he gotta go.

Avon

Nah, you a fuckin' businessman! You wanna handle it like that, you don't wanna get all gangsta wild and shit with it, right? What'd I tell you about playin' them fuckin' away games? Yeah. They saw your ghetto ass comin' from miles away, nigga. You got a fuckin' beef with them?! That shit is on you!