Bodie Broadus quotes from The Wire

Bodie

Man, Boys Village ain't shit! I'm just too bad for that off-brand, lil' boy bullshit, man. It can't hold me.

Bodie

[on killing Wallace] Look, the man gave the word, so we either step up or we step the fuck off. That's the game, yo.

Bodie

[to Namond] What you need school clothes for anyway? Yo ass stay suspended. If it wasn't for social promotion, yo ass would still be in Pre-k nigga...Prolly day care out this bitch.

Bodie

Come on with it, motherfuckers! I don't give a FUCK! [shoots at Chris] I'm right here! [shoots at Snoop] You ain't puttin' me in one of those empty-ass houses neither!

McNulty

This is just us talking right? Just you, me, my partner and... what did you say your name was?

Bodie

I didn't say shit.

McNulty

Just you, me, my partner and Mr. Shit here.

D'Angelo

Now look, check it, it's simple, it's simple. See this? This the kingpin, a'ight? And he the man. You get the other dude's king, you got the game. But he trying to get your king too, so you gotta protect it. Now, the king, he move one space any direction he damn choose, 'cause he's the king. Like this, this, this, a'ight? But he ain't got no hustle. But the rest of these motherfuckers on the team, they got his back. And they run so deep, he really ain't gotta do shit.

Bodie

Like your uncle.

D'Angelo

Yeah, like my uncle. [picks up a queen] You see this? This the queen; she smart, she fierce. She move anyway she want as far as she want. And she is the go-get-shit-done piece.

Wallace

Remind me of Stringer.

D'Angelo

And this over here is the castle, like the stash. It move like this, or like this. [demonstrates]

Wallace

Dog, stash don't move, man.

D'Angelo

Come on, yo, think, how many times we move the stash house this week. Right? And every time we move the stash, we gotta move a little muscle with it.

Bodie

True, true, you right. A'ight, what about them little baldheaded bitches right there?

D'Angelo

These right here, these are the pawns. They like the soldiers. They move like this, one space forward only. Except when they fight, then it's like this. And they like the front lines, they be out in the field.

Wallace

So how do you get to be the king?

D'Angelo

It ain't like that. See the king stay the king, a'ight? Everything stay who he is, 'cept for the pawns. The pawns, they get all the way to the other dude's side, you get to be queen. And like I said, the queen ain't no bitch. She got all the moves.

Bodie

A'ight, so, I make it to the other end, I win?

D'Angelo

If you catch the other dude's king and trap it, then you win.

Bodie

But I make it to the end, I'm top dog?

D'Angelo

Naw, it ain't like that. Look, pawns man, in the game, they get capped quick. They be out the game early.

Bodie

Unless they some smart-ass pawns.

Got any testers, man?

Bodie

Nigga, it ain't even 9:00 and you fiendin' on it. Get the fuck outta here, man! Damn.

D'Angelo

Yo, why you act like that, yo?

Bodie

What, for these junkie motherfuckers?

D'Angelo

So you just gonna take his money all day and treat him like a dog?

Bodie

How I'm supposed to treat him?

D'Angelo

I don't know. But you ain't gotta punk him like that.

Poot

He punked hisself. He a goddamn drug addict.

D'Angelo

And you a goddamn drug dealer.

Bodie

So? So what? Oh, what, the 'customer's always right'?

Wallace

Yo, we in the projects. The customer be fucked up. You can't give these niggers shit, man.

D'Angelo

Why not? Why can't you? Shit, everything else in the world gets sold without people taking advantage, scamming, lying, doing each other dirty. Why it got to be that way with this?

Poot

'Cause they DOPE fiends.

D'Angelo

Yeah, but the game ain't gotta be played like that, yo. You can't tell me this shit can't get done without people beatin' on each other, killing each other, doing each other like dogs. And without all that, you ain't got 5-0 down here on our backs every five minutes. Throwing us around and shit.

Wallace

Sheeit, man.

D'Angelo

You think 5-0 care about niggers gettin' high? In the projects? Man, 5-0 be down here about the bodies, yo. That's what they be down here about. The bodies.

We done gone so far from Baltimore, we're losing the station. Yo', try a Philly station or some shit like that.

Bodie

The radio in Philly is different?

Nigga, please. You gotta be fucking with me, right? You ain't never heard a station outside of Baltimore?

Bodie

Yo' man, I ain't never left Baltimore except that Boys Village shit one day, and I wasn't tryin' to hear no radio up in that bitch.

Stringer

You see these east-side motherfucker's over here? I want'chu to extend to these motherfucker's all the hospitality west Baltimore is famous for.

Bodie

Yeah, you want us to fuck 'em up.

Cheese

You mean to tell me there's a west-side nigga that know how to sell shit without stickin' a pistol in a fiends face?

Bodie

Yeah dog, and you better get used it, 'cause ya'll ain't sellin shit, until we bone-ass dry!

McNulty

You heard the tapes.

Bodie

Look, he came to me and said we can sell drugs if we moved down to Vincent Street. And that's where I moved my crew. And you know I did! Because you the one that popped me with a G-pack on my way to the spot and let me go, remember?

Pearlman

You were selling drugs in Major Colvin's free zone? You can prove that?

Bodie

[motioning to McNulty] Ask him, he know... Man, this-this must be one of them contrapment things!

Pearlman

You mean "entrapment"?

McNulty

[amused and impressed] Kid's gotta point...

Carver

Okay, so let's try this again. I say, "Have a good evening, Mr. Broadus!"

Bodie

And a good evening to you, Sgt. Carver.

Carver

See.

Bodie

And a VERY good evening to you, Officer Collichio!

Fuck yourself with a 40, shit-breath.

Namond

Ay, B.

Bodie

'Sup?

Namond

Um, I wanted to know if I can leave early 'cause me and the fellas want to go down to Mondawmin for some back-to-school stuff.

Bodie

Whatchu need "back-to-school" stuff for? Yo' ass stay suspended!

Namond

Tsk, c'mon, stop playin', B!

Bodie

Hey, if it wasn't for social promotion, yo' ass would still be in Pre-K, mothafucka—prolly day care out this bitch!

Bodie

Damn, boy... yo' mom is what niggas call a "dragon lady".

Namond

Ehh, she don't blink.

Bodie

Yeah, it give me some insight, though.

Namond

To what?

Bodie

Why you is what you is.

Bodie

[about Marlo] He's a cold motherfucker.

Poot

It's a cold world Bodie.

Bodie

Thought you said it was getting warmer.

Poot

The world goin' one way, people another yo'.