Gary Phillips > Quotes

“Put on some music, honey. Put on some Diz, will you? His music is magic, and you'll please his ghost by invoking it," Kodama said. "You'll need his protection in the days ahead.”
― Gary Phillips, Violent Spring

“The only thing that any of the two-dozen-plus gumshoes could come up with was a photograph of the president smoking a cigarette after telling the country he had quit that habit.”
― Gary Phillips, The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir

“I think the March on Washington is going to be a watershed event, don’t you?” “Maybe. But crackers digging in their heels to preserve the way of life they like has usually been the response to any forward motion us colored folks have tried.” “That’s kind of cynical, isn’t it?” “Or just a realistic observation.”
― Gary Phillips, One-Shot Harry

“She laid her head in his lap. "It's all so depressing. Los Angeles' capitalists trying to desperately leverage this place as the center of Pacific Rim finance and kids going hungry and people sleeping in their cars. And where I had bricks thrown at my car because black people thought I was Korean.”
― Gary Phillips, Violent Spring

“Off the main drag were streets that wound into the hills of Silverlake and the city officials who lived there and people who worked in the real Hollywood as prop builders, camera operators and the lowest of the low, the writers.”
― Gary Phillips, Violent Spring