Iceberg Slim > Quotes

“Before I'd touch a square bitch's slit,
I'd suck a thousand clappy pricks and swim through liquid shit,
They got green puke between their rotten toes,
And snot runs from their funky nose,
I hope square bitches become syphilitic wrecks,
I hope they fall through their own assholes and break their motherfucking necks.”
― Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life

“An emotional debt is hard to square.”
― Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life

“Son, there is no reason except a stupid one for anybody to project on that screen anything that will worry him or dull that vital edge. After all, we are the absolute bosses of that whole theatre and show in our minds. We even write the script. So always write positive, dynamic scripts and show only the best movies for you on that screen whether you are pimp or priest.”
― Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life

“Why did Justice really always wear a blindfold? I knew now. It was because the cunning bitch had dollar signs for eyeballs”
― Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life

“My heart lost rhythm at the flicker of phantom in the whiskey-stained voice.”
― Iceberg Slim

“He was an old Drag man with his bit getting short. He was the first to attempt to teach me to control my emotions. He would say, “Always remember whether you be sucker or hustler in the world out there, you’ve got that vital edge if you can iron-clad your feelings. I picture the human mind as a movie screen. If you’re a dopey sucker, you’ll just sit and watch all kinds of mindwrecking, damn fool movies on that screen.” He said. “Son, there is no reason except a stupid one for anybody to project on that screen anything that will worry him or dull that vital edge. After all, we are the absolute bosses of that whole theatre and show in our minds. We even write the script. So always write positive, dynamic scripts and show only the best movies for you on that screen whether you are pimp or priest.” His rundown of his screen theory saved my sanity many years later. He was a twisted wise man and one day when he wasn’t looking, a movie flashed on the screen. The title was “Death For an Old Con.”
― Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life

“Only a fool trips on what is behind them.”
― Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life

“I smelled the stink that only a street whore has after a long, busy night.”
― Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life

“I’m bullshit proof.”
― Iceberg Slim, Trick Baby

“No more small towns for me. I was going to the city to get my degree in pimping.”
― Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life

“Slim, I hope you ain't sexed that pretty bitch yet. Believe me, Slim, a pimp is really a whore who's reversed the game on whores. Slim, be as sweet as the scratch. Don't be no sweeter. Always stick a whore for a bundle before you sex her. A whore ain't nothing but a trick to a pimp. Don't let em Georgia you. Always get your money in front just like a whore. Whores in a stable are like working chumps in the white man's factory..”
― Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life

“This volume is dedicated to time.
It gives us memories, fine wine, and wrinkles.
But the only thing worse than getting old is not getting old.
So here's to time, dear reader, yours and mine.
May you have many more wrinkles, a lot of fine wine,
and memories to last two lifetimes.”
― Iceberg Slim, Airtight Willie & Me

“He took the bait like a rapist in a nudist colony for the blind.”
― Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life

“Whirly bits of confused thought stormed my mind.”
― Iceberg Slim, Trick Baby

“The pimp game is like the watchmaker's art, it's tough. Party went through his life struggling to make a watch while wearing boxing gloves.”
― Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life

“Always remember whether you be a sucker or hustler in the world out there, you've got that vital edge if you can iron-clad your feelings. I picture the human mind as a movie screen. If you're a dopey sucker you'll just sit an watch all kinds of mind-wrecking, damn fool movies on that screen... Son, there is no reason except a stupid one for anybody to project on that screen anything that will worry him or dull that vital edge. After all, we are the absolute bosses of that whole theatre and show inside our minds. We even write the script. So always write positive, dynamic scripts and show only the best movies for you on that screen whether are pimp or priest.”
― Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life

“It was a tragic Westside slum inhabited by poverty-mauled blacks.”
― Iceberg Slim, Trick Baby

“After all, we are the absolute bosses of that whole theater and show in our minds. We even write the script. So always write positive, dynamic scripts and show only the best movies for you on that screen whether you are pimp or priest.”
― Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life

“I want to say at the outset that I have become ill, insane, as an inmate of the torture chamber behind America's fake facade of justice and democracy. But I am not as ill as I was, and I am getting better all time.”
― Iceberg Slim

“He was just a Deep South chump driven to”
― Iceberg Slim, Trick Baby

“How about it, an Iceberg with a warm heart?”
― Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life

“A bitch aint shit without a man's good whip, & 1 monkey wont stop my show.”
― Iceberg Slim

“I had been bigger sucker than a square mark. All he loses is scratch. I had joined a club that suckered me behind bars fives times.”
― Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life

“Junkie whores on both sides of Calumet clung to the fetid doorways and rotted stoops like painted lice to a filthy crotch.”
― Iceberg Slim, Trick Baby

“I want to say at the outset that I have become ill, insane, as an inmate of the torture chamber behind America's fake facade of justice and democracy. But I am not as ill as I was, and I am getting better all the time. And also, I want to make clear that my reason for starting these notes at a point of personal anguish and suffering is that these experiences marked the end of a corrupt pimp life and were the prelude to a still mauled, but constructive new life.”
― Iceberg Slim, The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim

“One of those arrogant repeaters went to the hole for having a sassy look in his eyes. The charge was ‛visual insubordination.”
― Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story Of My Life

“Iceberg Slim did for the pimp what Jean Genet did for the homosexual and thief and William Burroughs for the junky: articulate the thoughts and feelings of someone who had been there. The big difference is that they were white. Unlike them, and despite one Harvard study of Pimp as a ‘transgressive novel’, Slim was, and still is, marginalised as a writer. It’s ironic and indicative of the institutionalised racism of English-speaking society that someone whose influence on Western culture is now probably greater than any touted (white) writer of all postwar generations finds himself in this peculiar position. Literature, always the most culturally hegemonic art form, has basically shut Slim out, in a way the music industry tried (unsuccessfully) to do with black artists for years.”
― Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story Of My Life

“I was losing, page by page, the fine rules of thought and deed that I had learned in church, from Henry to the Boy Scout Troop in Rockford. I was sopping up the poison off the street like a sponge.”
― Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life

“croak us for free. He’d suck Nino’s ass with a straw.”
― Iceberg Slim, Trick Baby

“Walk between the raindrops, bitch.”
― Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life