Maurice Levy quotes from The Wire

[to Stringer] A guy says if you pay him, he can make it rain. You pay him. If and when it rains, he takes the credit. If and when it doesn't, he comes up with reasons for you to pay more. Clay Davis rainmade you ...... It's an old game in this town, and Clay Davis? That goniff was born with his hand in someone's pocket.

D'Angelo

Where's Wallace at? ... Where's the boy, String?

Stringer

D'Angelo, shut your mouth.

D'Angelo

Where's Wallace? That's all I wanna know.

Kid, you better think...

D'Angelo

Where's Wallace? Where the fuck is Wallace? Huh? Huh? String? String? Look at me! Where the fuck is Wallace? HUH!? I don't want this Payless-wearing motherfucker representing me. I'ma get my own man. So just get back in your car and get the fuck back down south.

Stringer

A'ight, you stupid motherfucker, you made your decision.

D'Angelo

Yeah, I made my decision. Where's Wallace at? Where the fuck is Wallace? Where's Wallace, String? String! Where the fuck is Wallace? Huh? Stringer?!

You are amoral, are you not? You are feeding off the violence and the despair of the drug trade. You're stealing from those who themselves are stealing the lifeblood from our city. You are a parasite who leeches off--

Omar

Just like you, man.

--the culture of drugs... Excuse me, what?

Omar

I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It's all in the game, though, right?

Omar

That wasn't no attempted murder.

Then what was it, Mr. Little?

Omar

I shot the boy Mike-Mike in his hind parts, that all. [jury members laugh] Fixed it up so he couldn't sit right. [Judge Phelan chuckles]

Why'd you shoot Mike-Mike in his, um... hind parts, Mr. Little?

Omar

Let's say we had a disagreement.

A disagreement over?

Omar

Well, you see, Mike-Mike thought he should keep that cocaine he was slingin' and the money he was makin' from slingin' it. I thought otherwise.