In Search of Respect Quotes

• Bourgois: "Felix's energy at the game room was devoted to cultivating sexual liaisons with addicted women – especially teenage girls"
• Primo: "Sometimes there be tears in their eyes. They didn't want to be forced"
• Primo: "You gotta understand Felipe even when they say no, they're loving it"
• Bourgois: "Women on the street are not paralysed by terror"
• Candy: "Felix broke my arm. He did everything to me"
• Candy: "He made me loose five stomachs (pregnancies)"
• Candy : "I used to get three beatings a night, every day, from when I was thirteen till I was twenty-one"
• Primo: "I have to abuse that bitch verbally"
• Bourgois: "Felix's wife Candy, who was six months pregnant at the time shot Felix in the stomach to punish him for sleeping with her sister"
• Primo: "Free meat"
• Caesar: "Training her!"
• Primo: "She's a piece of meat – already fucked up"
• Primo: "She was seventeen years old. She was already a woman; she wasn't a virgin"
• Primo: "She was there like a hole. They were holding her there"
• Bourgois: "Traditional gender roles"
• Primo: "Every time you go to McDonald's you don't see anybody twenty-six years old"
• Primo: "You have to do so much work for bullshit money"
• Primo: "I'm lazy"
• Felix: "Even kids too little to understand anything about drugs looked up to me"
• Primo: "He's got juice"
• Primo: "I really wanna work legal"
• Bourgois: "Pathetic losers, or as lazy, pathological, self-destructive drug addicts"
• Willie: "We never be on welfare"
• Primo: "I have to make something of myself"
• Laura Nader (anthropologist): "Don't study the poor and powerless, everything you say about them will be used against them"
• Caesar: "And then there's the other way of just total violence"
• Juan: "Blacks and Puerto Ricans really don't get along here"
• Primo: "I don't like this crack dealing"
• Bourgois: "Most of El Barrio's residents had nothing to do with drugs"
• Bourgois: "I was forced into crack against my will"
• Bourgois: "I chose addicts, dealers and thieves to be my best friends"
• Caesar: "The only reason I get high is because I love it"
• Bourgois: "I changed everyone's name and camouflaged the street addresses to protect individuals' privacy"
• "Especially the Africans - those people look dirty to me"