D'Angelo Barksdale Quotes

You can say you’re somebody new, you can give yourself a whole new story. But, what came first is who you really are and what happened before is what really happened. And it don’t matter that some fool say he different ’cause the only thing that can make you different is what you really do or what you really go through.

They playing you with that “We’re family, and it’s all about love.” That’s how they do. When they got no more use for you, that family s*** disappears. It’s just about business.[to Donette]

The past is always with us. And where we come from, what we go through, how we go through it, all that s*** matters.

I was courtside for eight months, and I was freer in jail than I was at home.

All my people, man. My father, my uncles, my cousins, it’s just what we do. You just live with this s***, until you can’t breathe no more.

The king stay the king.

If anybody asks you whether you in this game, you tell them you in it for life, all right?. You play it hard, you play it tight, and you make sure niggas know you gonna stand by your people. No loose talk, no second thoughts, and no snitching. Play it like that.[to Wallace]

F*** “right.” It ain’t about right, it’s about money.