A man gotta have a code.
S4 E7Unto Others
[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.
S4 E9Know Your Place
Thought maybe I could get with Chris... I--I've got a problem I can't bring to no one else.
[as he is leaving prison] You my ride?
I'm your mother fucking savior is what I am.
I like to think that until the handcuffs actually fit, there's still talking to be done.
Proposition Joe (To Andre) You know the problem with these here machines? They too cheap to begin with. Some people think for what it's worth to fix it, make the shit work right, you might as well dump 'em and get another.
Mr. Mayor, about Ervin -- if you don't mind me asking -- why keep him as a puppet commissioner when you can just fire the guy?
[Carcetti & Norman look at each other]
We mind you asking.
Man gotta live what he know, right?
S4 E10Misgivings
You put a textbook in front of these kids, put a problem on the blackboard, teach them every problem in some statewide test, it won't matter. None of it. 'Cause they're not learning for our world; they're learning for theirs. They know exactly what it is they're training for and what it is everyone expects them to be. It's not about you or us or the test or the system. It's what they expect of themselves. Every single one of them know they're headed back to the corners. Their brothers and sisters, shit, their parents. They came through these same classrooms. We pretended to teach them, they pretended to learn and where'd they end up? Same damn corners. They're not fools, these kids. They don't know our world but they know their own. They see right through us.
Bunny?
Only my friends call me Bunny.
Yeah, but why?
You don't need to know. And if you tell anybody, I'll cut your balls off.
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