If Beale Street Could Talk quotes about justice & the law

The truth of a case doesn’t matter. What matters is – who wins.

Time could not be bought. The only coin time accepted was life.

I hope that nobody has ever had to look at anybody they love through glass.

But they are wrong to be ashamed. The people responsible for these jails should be ashamed.

It is not that he gives up hope, but that he ceases clinging to it.

The poor are always crossing the Sahara. And the lawyers and bonds-men and all that crowd circle around the poor, exactly like vultures.

Maybe I’d feel different if I had done something and got caught. But I didn’t do nothing. They were just playing with me, man, because they could.

Remember, Tish, after all, it isn’t very much of a case. If Fonny were white, it wouldn’t be a case at all.

These captive men are the hidden price for a hidden and dreadful terror: the righteous must be able to locate the damned.

But you don’t know – the worst thing, man, the worst thing – is that they can make you so fucking scared. Scared, man. Scared.

No matter what you may understand, and really understand, and no matter what you may tell yourself, if no one comes to see you, you are in very bad trouble. And trouble, here, means danger.