Goodreads helps you follow your favorite authors. Be the first to learn about new releases!
Start by following Cecil Brown.
Showing 1-6 of 6
“Hell, everybody is a masochist. Some of us are just a little more private.”
― The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger
― The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger
“Both Richard and I sat silent and watched Jennifer Lee. She came across the room and over to us and swept our chess pieces off the board.
“Bastard!” she announced and started back for the door.
“No. Jennifer, I’ve had it with you. You took your clothes off in front of my son. My son came to me and he was crying and I said what’s wrong but he wouldn’t say anything. I made him tell me, Jennifer. He said you came out of your bedroom naked. You showed my son your pussy, woman!”
“And you hit me,” Jennifer accused him. I realized that they were both showing off right in front of me to embarrass the other one.
“And you spit in my face and called me a nigger!” he shot back.
She came back. “Because I wanted to! Damn you!”
“Well, just leave. I told you to leave. Now leave. I’ve done all I could for you, just leave. You would never treat Warren Beatty like you treated me. Or any of those other white boys you star-fucked.”
He turned to me.
“Man, can you imagine her doing that to Warren Beatty?”
I said, “No!”
―
“Bastard!” she announced and started back for the door.
“No. Jennifer, I’ve had it with you. You took your clothes off in front of my son. My son came to me and he was crying and I said what’s wrong but he wouldn’t say anything. I made him tell me, Jennifer. He said you came out of your bedroom naked. You showed my son your pussy, woman!”
“And you hit me,” Jennifer accused him. I realized that they were both showing off right in front of me to embarrass the other one.
“And you spit in my face and called me a nigger!” he shot back.
She came back. “Because I wanted to! Damn you!”
“Well, just leave. I told you to leave. Now leave. I’ve done all I could for you, just leave. You would never treat Warren Beatty like you treated me. Or any of those other white boys you star-fucked.”
He turned to me.
“Man, can you imagine her doing that to Warren Beatty?”
I said, “No!”
―
“I take what Jennifer Lee reported (in her 1991 memoir) with a grain of salt.”
― Pryor Lives!: How Richard Pryor Became Richard Pryor Or Kiss My Rich, Happy Black...Ass! A Memoir
― Pryor Lives!: How Richard Pryor Became Richard Pryor Or Kiss My Rich, Happy Black...Ass! A Memoir
“There is some evidence that Lee Shelton took the name from the riverboat Stack Lee. Many of the riverboats were the subjects of "coonjining" (conjoining) songs. These songs, according to Garnett Laidlaw Eskew, "eulogized the boats themselves." "There was something intensely personal about a steamboat. To the men who manned and owned and operated them, steamboats had personality. Hence the qualities of certain boats live today in Coonjine songs." 18”
― Stagolee Shot Billy
― Stagolee Shot Billy
“John and Alan Lomax claimed alternately that "Stack Lee ... was the son of the Lee family of Memphis who owned a large line of steamers that ran up and down the Mississippi" and that the name Stack Lee came from the riverboat of that name.'-”
― Stagolee Shot Billy
― Stagolee Shot Billy
