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“This may be hard to believe, coming from a black man, but I’ve never stolen anything. Never cheated on my taxes or at cards. Never snuck into the movies or failed to give back the extra change to a drugstore cashier indifferent to the ways of mercantilism and minimum-wage expectations. I’ve never burgled a house. Held up a liquor store. Never boarded a crowded bus or subway car, sat in a seat reserved for the elderly, pulled out my gigantic penis and masturbated to satisfaction with a perverted, yet somehow crestfallen, look on my face. But here I am, in the cavernous chambers of the Supreme Court of the United States of America, my car illegally and somewhat ironically parked on Constitution Avenue, my hands cuffed and crossed behind my back, my right to remain silent long since waived and said goodbye to as I sit in a thickly padded chair that, much like this country, isn’t quite as comfortable as it looks.”
― Paul Beatty, The Sellout

“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
― Anthony Burgess

“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

“Yasakları kabul ettik. İnsanoğlu için yasaklı hayvanlar da diyebiliriz. Mikroplar bile birer yasak değil mi? Aşklar yasaktır. Gün olur, sular, yemişler bile yasaktır. İnsanlar birbirine yasaktır.
Canım çekiyor diye öpemem seni güzel çocuk! Canım çekiyor diye giremem sana deniz, göğsüm zayıftır; doktor yasağı. Canım çekiyor diye içemem:körkütük oluncaya kadar, aklı boğuncaya kadar: karaciğer yasağı. Canım çekiyor diye bir vapura binip Haydarpaşa'ya, oradan tabana kuvvet Van'a kadar gidemem. Yollarda geberirim... Çarşıya inemem. Çarşıyı Allah kahretsin.”
― Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Alemdağ'da Var Bir Yılan