Bodie Broadus quotes from The Wire

Poot

Where?

Bodie

I saw on Animal Planet... marlin fishin'. Like Florida, the Bahamas... that shit look sweet. The water was like this... this color, man.

Poot

Tsk, man, it ain't gon' be that cold this year.

Bodie

[scoffs] How you know?

Poot

Global warmin'.

Bodie

So why is it so cold already?

Poot

Yo, we just gettin' old.

Bodie

Yeah, true that.

McNulty

Not a good day to be cross-eyed in West Baltimore.

Bodie

What, y'all behind on your quotas or some shit? What the fuck?

McNulty

Seems one of my side got jumped last night.

Bodie

[Chuckling] Yeah, Walker—I heard about that shit.

McNulty

Threw paint on him.

McNulty

Walker's an asshole.

McNulty

Hey, you play in dirt, you get dirty.

Bodie

I ain't no snitch.

McNulty

Didn't say you were.

Bodie

I been doin' this a long time. I ain't never said nothin' to no cop. [Bodie sighs] I feel old... I been out there since I was 13. I ain't never fucked up a count, never stole off a package, never did some shit that I wasn't told to do. I've been straight up. But what come back? Hmm? You think if I get jammed up on some shit, they be like, "All right, yeah. Bodie been there. Bodie hang tough. We got to his pay lawyer. We got a bail". They want me to stand with them, right? Where the fuck they at when they supposed to be standin' by us? I mean, when shit goes bad and there's hell to pay, where they at? This game is rigged, man... we like them little bitches on the chessboard.

McNulty

... Pawns.

Bodie

Yo, I'm not snitchin' on none of my boys. Not my corner, and not no Barksdale people. Well, what's left of 'em. But, Marlo, this nigga and his kind, man, they gotta fall. They gotta.

McNulty

Well, for that to happen, somebody's gotta step up.

Bodie

I'll do what I gotta. I don't give a fuck! Just don't ask me to live on my fuckin' knees, you know?

McNulty

You're a soldier, Bodie.

Bodie

Hell yeah.