theparisreview:

“You can change up, right? You can say you’re somebody new, you can give yourself a whole new story, but what came first is who you really are and what happened before is what really happened. It don’t matter if some fool say different because the only thing that makes you different is what you really do or what you really go through.”

A great clip from The Wire where F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is broken down.