Poot Carr quotes from The Wire

Poot

You think he get paid?

Wallace

Shit, he richer than a motherfucker.

Wallace

:[eating chicken nuggets] Man, these shits is right. Yo.

Poot

Mm-hmm.

Wallace

It's good with the hot sauce too, yo.

Poot

Most definite.

Wallace

Yo, D, you want some nuggets?

D’Angelo

Nah, go ahead, man.

Wallace

Man, whoever invented these, yo, he off the hook.

Poot

What?

Wallace

Mm. Motherfucker got the bone all the way out the damn chicken. ‘Til he came along, niggas be chewin' on drumsticks and shit, gettin' they fingers all greasy. He said, Later for the bone, nugget that meat up, make some real money.

Poot

You think the man got paid?

Wallace

Who?

Poot

The man who invented these.

Wallace

Shit, he richer than a motherfucker.

D’Angelo

Why? You think he get a percentage?

Wallace

Why not?

D’Angelo

Nigga, please, the man who invented them things, just some sad-ass down at the basement of McDonald's, thinkin' up some shit to make some money for the real players.

Poot

Naw, man, that ain't right.

D’Angelo

Fuck "right." It ain't about right, it's about money. Now you think Ronald McDonald gonna go down in that basement and say, "Hey, Mr. Nugget, you the bomb. We sellin' chicken faster than you can tear the bone out. So I'm gonna write my clowny-ass name on this fat-ass check for you"?

Wallace

Shit.

D’Angelo

Man, the nigga who invented them things still workin' in that basement for regular wage, thinkin' up some shit to make the fries taste better, some shit like that. Believe.

Wallace

Still had the idea though.

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.

Poot

How can he know where the stash at? The narco's don't know, but he do, 'cause some nigga snitchin'!

D'Angelo

Man, ain't nobody gotta be snitchin' for Omar, or one of his boys, to creep by and see where the stash at.

Slim Charles

But what if they don't cop our re-up, though?

Stringer

Well, I'ma worry about that when it happen. Until then, Mr. Charles, we're going to handle this shit like businessmen, sell the shit, make the profit and later for that gangsta bullshit. [Poot raises his hand.] Yeah.

Poot

Do the chair know we gonna look like some punk-ass bitches out there?

Stringer

Motherfucker, I will punk your ass for sayin such shit!

Yo, String, Poot did have the floor, man.

Stringer

Shut the fuck up, this nigga too ignorant to have the fuckin' floor!

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'.

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.