Derek Vinyard: One in every three black males is in some phase of the correctional system. Is that a coincidence or do these people have, you know, like a racial commitment to crime?

Derek (to Seth): I think you’ve lost weight, man. I can get my arms almost all the way around you.

Danny: Venice Beach didn’t always look like this. It used to be a good neighborhood. The Boardwalk’s always been a dump but when my dad moves us out here Venice was a nice quiet place to grow up. Over the years though it’s just gone to hell. The gangs are like a plague they moved west from Inglewood and South Central and basically took over.

Doris Vinyard: I’m ashamed that you came out of my body.

Derek: You prey on people Cam. I lost three years of my life for your phony cause but I’m onto you know you snake.

[Inside prison laundry]
Lamont: I’m the most dangerous man in this prison. You know why? ‘Cause I control the underwear.

Derek: Bite the curb.

Cameron: You made the fat kid a little nervous. He thinks the joint messed with your mind.
Derek Vinyard: It did.

Cameron: Now wait a minute Danny, he’s not proud, no he’s a manipulative self-righteous Uncle Tom whose trying to make you feel guilty about writing about Adolf Hitler.