don't make me have to come down here again.
carmen's developing into a fine young lady. you should be proud. you get your period yet, carmen?
you johnny sullivan's kid?
you live with your grandmother?
you do good in school?
that's good. i did good in school. they call that a paradox.
buy yourself some makeup. keep the change.
you ever want to earn a little extra money, you come by l street. you know where i am on l street.
church wants you in your place. what sort of man wants to be kept in his place? do this don't do that, kneel, stand, kneel, stand. i mean if you go for that sort of thing.
i don't know what to do for you. a man makes his own way. no one gives it to you. you have to take it. non serviam.
him and lucifer. and me. guineas from the north end and down providence, tried to tell me what to do. and something maybe happened to them.
you decide to be something, you can be it. that's what they don't tell you, the church.
when i was your age, they would say, we become cops or criminals. today, what i'm saying to you is this: when you are facing a loaded gun.
what's the difference?