Backwash (The Wire) Quotes

Backwash (The Wire) is a TV show that first aired in 1970 . Backwash ended in 1970.

Backwash (The Wire) Quotes

• (Thomas 'Horseface' Pakusa) "Don't worry, kid. You're still on the clock."

• (Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart) "Sorry for the loss. Y'all sent him off right, though. As good a homecomin' as I been to."
• (Russell 'Stringer' Bell) "You been to your share, man, I know."
• (Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart) "No doubt, no doubt. 'Course, this is neither the time nor the place, but I thought I might get at you for a moment. Got a proposition here."
• (Russell 'Stringer' Bell) "Go 'head to the car, man."
• (Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart) "Ain't exactly talkin' outta turn when I say that, uh, Westside dope been weak for a while now. Every dope fiend in the city know that Avon been puttin' out piss and callin' it s***. And the thing is, y'all sittin' on some of the best real estate in the city. The Terrace, the low-rises, the avenue corners --"
• (Russell 'Stringer' Bell) "Now, respectin' the fact that you're known to have a way with your words, man, when the f*** you gonna tell me somethin' I don't know?"
• (Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart) "A'ight, lemme put a point on it. My s*** is right, String. I got dope comin' straight into Baltimore, and the s*** be raw. Eighty-five, ninety percent. And you know it's true. You got half the Westside comin' over to Fallsway twice a day because Eastside dope be kickin' the s*** outta Westside dope."
• (Russell 'Stringer' Bell) "Connected, huh?"
• (Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart) "Man, this s*** is straight off the damn boat. I ain't even goin' to New York except for my coke, String. Ain't no need. Thing is, y'all got the best territory, and no kinda product. I got the best product, but could stand a little more territory, so you see where this thing need to go."
• (Russell 'Stringer' Bell) "Now, you know Avon fought real hard for them towers. I mean, we took down the Rayford brothers, Big Dennis Woodson, I mean --"
• (Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart) "s*** is just bidness, String. Buy for a dollar, sell for two. That all it need be. You got the towers, I got what goes in 'em. Later for all that bulls***."
• (Russell 'Stringer' Bell) "I'll talk to Avon."
• (Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart) "You do that, homes. Do that."

• (Lt. Cedric Daniels) "You know what I love? The mind that's always a step ahead of me. The person who never stops thinking it through. That's what I fell in love with first."
• (Marla Daniels) "You know what I fell in love with first? Do you? Your ambition. Where did that man go?"

• (Sgt. Ellis Carver) "His name is Head. Dick Head."

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