Remember when I was a cadet, I was up here on a cadaver search. Instructor gets on the radio to say "We're looking for one body in particular. If you go grabbing every one you see, we'll be here all day."
S4 E5Alliances
S4 E6Margin of Error
Did you vote for me Norman?
[laughing] The sanctity of the voting booth is a cornerstone of American democracy.
A vote's a vote, and I never throw one back.
Politics is a good thing, partner.
That's a minority opinion.
[After De'Londa coerces Bodie to give her son Namond his own package.]
Damn, boy... yo' mom is what niggas call a "dragon lady".
Ehh, she don't blink.
Yeah, it give me some insight, though.
To what?
Why you is what you is.
S4 E7Unto Others
Trick them into thinking they aren't learning, and they do.
NNorris
You know what we use the polygraph for? Leverage. To get them in here and fuck with them.
No wonder this shit's inadmissible.
I've got a bounty on my head man. Five figures! If I'd known I'd be sharing quarters with all these boys - I'd probably wouldn't have robbed so many of them.
Aww, yeah, that golden rule.
A man gotta have a code.
[in a lockup room] Come on now, when have you ever known me to out my gun on someone thats not in the game?
[laughing] Omar...
S4 E8Corner Boys
ZZenobia
We got our thing, but it's just part of the big thing.
Let us pray. Here we lay a couple New York boys who came too far south for their own fuckin' good. Where ya fuckin' Yankee pride at now, fuckin' bitches? Let's get the fuck outta here.
Did you hear that naked ass appeal to racial solidarity? I'd like to kick his pale entitled ass.
[to Herc] But you know cameras. Kinda like pigeons in the storm. You know what I'm saying? Sometimes they come back, sometimes... but I'll keep an ear out on it.
We do the same thing as y’all. ‘Cept when we do it, it’s "Oh, my God, these kids is animals!" Like it’s the end of the world comin’. Man, that’s bullshit, aight? This is like, what’s it, hypocrite--hypocritical.
ZZenobia
We got our thing, but it's just part of the big thing.
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