Vishu Madapathi

“Silence can be either protest or consent, but most times it’s fear.”
― Paul Beatty, The Sellout

“If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That’s Always Passed Out on the Couch.”
― Paul Beatty, The Sellout

“I'm so fucking tired of black women always being described by their skin tones! Honey-colored this! Dark-chocolate that! My paternal grandmother was mocha-tinged, café-au-lait, graham-fucking-cracker brown! How come they never describe the white characters in relation to foodstuffs and hot liquids? Why aren't there any yogurt-colored, egg-shell-toned, string-cheese-skinned, low-fat-milk white protagonists in these racist, no-third-act-having books? That's why black literature sucks!”
― Paul Beatty, The Sellout

“If he was indeed an “autodidact,” there’s no doubt he had the world’s shittiest teacher.”
― Paul Beatty, The Sellout