The Get Down

“We ain’t gonna kill you, Caddy. But school ain’t over, Mama’s Boy.”

— Sam Bromell, Jacqui Rivera, Ezekiel Figuero, Justice Smith, imdb.com

“Better a failed church than a soiled nest.”

— Aaron Rahsaan Thomas, Pastor Ramon Cruz, Giancarlo Esposito, imdb.com

“In this life, if you want something, you have to pursue it. You can’t just rely on life to pursue you.”

— Nelson George, Mrs. Cruz, Zabryna Guevara, imdb.com

“No matter if I live or die I Promise Imma meet you on the other side.”

— Sam Bromell, Jacqui Rivera, Ezekiel Figuero, Justice Smith, imdb.com

“I’ll always wait for you. I’ve been waiting on you my whole life. Even when we together, there’s still a part of me is waiting on you.”

— Sam Bromell, Jacqui Rivera, Ezekiel Figuero, Justice Smith, imdb.com

“It ain’t about what you like. You down for the cause or not?”

— Sam Bromell, Jacqui Rivera, Sinead Daly, Shaolin Fantastic, Shameik Moore, imdb.com

“See, downtown, at my internship, or at Yale, I’m the lucky orphan child whose fate depends on being one of the good negroes, and never losing my cool or saying what I actually think, or, God forbid, being me. On the mic, I’m the master of my destiny. And I love it.”

— Nelson George, Ezekiel Figuero, Justice Smith, imdb.com

“It ain’t talk when it’s true.”

— Aaron Rahsaan Thomas, Ezekiel Figuero, Justice Smith, imdb.com

“That’s the art. We know how to scratch it without scratching the record.”

— Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, Ezekiel Figuero, Justice Smith, imdb.com

“Violence is discouraged but not prohibited.”

— Sam Bromell, Jacqui Rivera, Sinead Daly, Francisco 'Papa Fuerte' Cruz, Jimmy Smits, imdb.com

“To estimate the intelligence of a leader, look at the men he keeps around him.”

— Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, Sam Bromell, Mr. Gunns, Michel Gill, imdb.com

“We are in the streets, bro. What we do is in the street. And in the street, shit happens.”

— Aaron Rahsaan Thomas, Shaolin Fantastic, Shameik Moore, imdb.com

“You see, up in the Bronx that which is wrong can seem right, and right seem wrong.”

— T Cooper, Allison Glock-Cooper, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Ezekiel Figuero, Justice Smith, imdb.com

“When you know better, then you do better. Each one, teach one, come together.”

— Jacqui Rivera, Sam Bromell, Shaolin Fantastic, Shameik Moore, imdb.com

“We all have sins. All of us are searching for forgiveness.”

— Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, Pastor Ramon Cruz, Giancarlo Esposito, imdb.com

“It’s the friendships we break more so than the friendships we make that delineate the intelligent leader.”

— Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, Sam Bromell, Mr. Gunns, Michel Gill, imdb.com

“When you a king, you gotta look out for your people.”

— Stephen Adly Guirgis, Ezekiel Figuero, Justice Smith, imdb.com

“All a man has is his word.”

— Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Baz Luhrmann, Jacqui Rivera, Francisco 'Papa Fuerte' Cruz, Jimmy Smits, imdb.com

“Kings don’t run. Kings walk.”

— Aaron Rahsaan Thomas, Shaolin Fantastic, Shameik Moore, imdb.com

“Life is a test It will break you or drive you Into the ground In the game of survival.”

— Sam Bromell, Jacqui Rivera, Ezekiel Figuero, Justice Smith, imdb.com