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A white midwestern girl moves to Chicago, where her new boyfriend is a black teen from the South Side with a rough, semi-criminal past.
[Chenille picks up Sara's backpack off the ground and Sara turns around, confused] Chenille: That's how easy it is to give to charity around here. Don't put your shit on the floor.
Chenille: You can't help who you love, Derek, you're not supposed to.
Derek: "Stepps" ain't no square dance. Sara: That's okay, I'll dance in circles, probably around you.
Chenille: You need to take off that 5th grade dance lookin' top. Sara: It's from The Gap! Chenille: It's country and you look country in it!
Sara: You know Snook, you talk a lot of shit for someone who never says anything.
[after Sara and Nikki's fight] Nikki: It ain't over, bitch. Sara: I don't even know why it started, bitch.
Derek: Do you get along with your dad? You tight and shit? Sara: Yeah, we're "tight and shit"; our DNA matches.
Sara: [sobbing] I just want someone there who loves me. Roy Johnson: [looks up] I love you.
Sara: Asshole. Chenille: Who? Because in this crowd you're going to have to be a bit more specific.
Sara: We spend more time defending our relationship than actually having one.
Chenille: Quit it Nikki. Nikki: Excuse me, I ain't walkin on egg shells just cause you brought the Brady Bunch to the negro club.
Snookie: I'm free Saturday night. Chenille: Why, is your hand busy?
Sara: You know what? Derek and I like each other and if you have a problem with that, then screw you.
Sara: Then you must be in the wrong spot because I'm pretty sure there aren't any Negroes here. Chenille: Ooh!
Derek: So was that a good night as in, "I'll bust a cap in your ass if you ever darken my doorstep again"? Sara: No! No, I would never - um, bust a cap in your ass.
Derek: Ain't nobody watchin' you but me.
Chenille: They call him Snookie because Fool was taken.
Sara: [when talking to her dad] It's not that I hate you, it's just that I miss her.
Chenille: [to Kenny's back] Go 'head... Leave! That's what you're good at! Your son ain't seen nothing but your back since he was born!
Sara: There's only one world, Chenille. Chenille: That's what they teach you. We know different.
Chenille: And this is Diggy. She thinks she's down. Diggy: Excuse me? I am down, okay?
Malakai: I'm not you, Derek. I can't do nothin' but what I'm doin'. I can't go to Georgetown with a 10.0 GPA, operatin' on people, doin' brain surgery or whatever the Hell you're goin' to be doin'.
Chenille: I saw you workin' it out there tonight, girl! Sara: Oh, yeah... slammin'! Chenille: Ah-huh! Later!
Derek: Come on, act like you a nasty bitch.
[about Malakai] Sara: So you're not down with the things he does, but you're still down with him? That makes perfect sense. I understand. Derek: He's my friend, Sara. You don't have to understand.
Malakai: This is an A and B conversation, so C yourself out of it
Derek: Let's put some S-E-X in those H-I-Ps!
Derek: You can do it. Sara, you were born to do it.
Sara: It's about me and him, not about us and other people.
Sara: A lot of people read them. Derek: People like who? Like you? [pause] Derek: Didn't think so.
Chenille: Too many little boys thinkin' they thugs.
Kenny: Don't blame me; I didn't want any of this! Chenille: What? 'Cause I did? I climbed on top of myself and got myself pregnant?
Sara: Screw you, I'm brilliant and cool. Derek: You're not quite there yet.
Derek: Yeah, but six months here gotta be better than six up the juvie. Malakai: Yeah, they got girls in here.
Kenny: How you doin'? Chenille: Why don't you ask how your son is doing? That's a line you haven't tried in a while. Kenny: Why you always gotta jump off on me like that? Chenille: Why you gotta be like you are? Kenny: Ah, come on, you know you wanna dance with me. That's what you came here for, to yell at me, and to dance with me.