one gif per episode - 1x07 plan b

(Source: shesnotsoft)

nevertravelled:

I studied and became a teacher, a leader, but despite all my righteous intentions, I was still selfish, ambitious, manipulative, and even more arrogant. What’s happened over the past few months has humbled me. I have been humbled. But not by you. By God. Stripped of everything else, I have nothing left but Allah. And that is more than enough. Peace be unto you, my brother.

I say again: God had to do it, because no one else around is badder than Said.

rinoatimber:

“We don’t always see eye-to- eye, but he’s somebody who believes in Beecher. He’s someone, when it’s all going crazy, is an anchor to Beecher, and Beecher needs all the help he can get.”

Lee Tergesen on Beecher and Said’s relationship (source)

nevertravelled:

SAID: I am black, I am a Muslim, and I am a man. And sometimes, those three things, they war with each other. I am not proud of my feelings for Tricia Ross, but I am not ashamed of them either. ‘Cause, sweet, sweet sister, when I stop my feelings, when I shut down my emotions, then this prison, it has truly won.

nevertravelled:

TOP TEN OZ CHARACTERS | INMATES | 02. KAREEM SAID

How do I feel? I feel joyless. My brothers remain behind, imprisoned, suppressed. I don’t just mean my Muslim brothers. I mean every single man that will sleep here tonight, that was cut off from everything that he loves, cut off from his own self. You know, as the word went around that the Governor was gonna give somebody clemency, I saw a rift develop, as each inmate wished himself to be the chosen one. The longing to be free became as palpable as the food that we eat. But it is a meal that I am being served right now. And I am Muslim. And Allah does not allow me to — swallow certain things. Allah does not allow me to take scraps from the hands of a man such as this, a man who is corrupt and immoral, a man who denigrates the gift of clemency just as he violates the principles of justice, a man that gave the order that caused the death of eight people. And so, Governor Devlin, because even the cost of freedom can be too high, I refuse your pardon.

nevertravelled:

you keep what you kill.

nevertravelled:

Studio portrait, © Paul Schiraldi.

nevertravelled:

so let us fill this empty earth with hope. — 5x06, “variety”