- Socrates Fortlow: You and your friends did wrong, Darryl. Now, I'm just talking to you, one black man to another, all right, 'cause, see, if you don't know when you've done wrong, life ain't worth a damn.
- Right Burke: [In narration] Socrates Fortlow. His mother named him Socrates because it was a wise man's name. She couldn't teach him how to write, but she could give him the name of someone smart.
- Socrates Fortlow: A boy should be hungry.
- Darryl: Fuck that supposed to mean?
- Socrates Fortlow: It means something's missing, and hungry tells you what it is.
- Right Burke: Socrates had been as low as a man could go but he came back loving hard and deep, strong. Rich man would never have that kind of power and precious few lovers could ever be that satisfied.
- Right Burke: The rooster was horse in its old age, sometimes his crow was no more than a whisper, but at least that motherfucker tried.
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