Misgivings

The Wire 4×10

Grace Sampson: This time of year, we go to 90-minute classes. Concentrated prep in math and language arts only.
Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: I don't follow. Why the heat?
Grace Sampson: It's the only way kids will sit through 90 minutes of anything.
Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: Make them drowsy?
Grace Sampson: Right.
Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: So it's about the tests.
Grace Sampson: From now until they're done, everything's about the tests.

Malik 'Poot' Carr: It ain't gonna be that cold this year.
Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: How you know?
Malik 'Poot' Carr: Global warming.
Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: So why is it so cold already?
Malik 'Poot' Carr: Yo, we just getting old.

Howard 'Bunny' Colvin: Let's not panic... yet.

Howard 'Bunny' Colvin: You put a textbook in front of these kids, or teach them every problem on some statewide test, it won't matter, none of it, because they're not learning for our world they're learning for theirs. They know what they're training for and what everyone expects them to be.
Superintendent: I expect them to be students.
Howard 'Bunny' Colvin: But it's not about you or us, or the tests or the system. It's what they expect of themselves. Every single one of them is headed back to the corners. Their brothers and sisters, shit, their parents, they came through these same classrooms. We pretended to teach, they pretended to learn. Where'd they end up? The same damn corners. I mean, they're not fools, these kids. They don't know our world, but they know their own. I mean, Jesus, they... they see right through us.

Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Baker, let me tell you a little secret. A patrolling officer on his beat is the one true dictatorship in America. We can lock a guy up on a humble, lock him up for real, or we can say, fuck it, pull under the expressway and drink ourselves to death, and our partners will cover it. So no one, and I mean no one, tells us how to waste our shift.

Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: It's cold, motherfucker.
Malik 'Poot' Carr: It's a cold world, Bodie.
Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: Thought you said it was getting warmer.
Malik 'Poot' Carr: World going one way, people another, yo.

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: Damn. You didn't even wait to get the motherfucker in the house.

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