“And this country, the latent hight school homosexual that it is, the mulatto passing for white that it is, the Neanderthal incessantly plucking its unibrow that it is, needs people like him. It needs somebody to throw baseballs at, to fag-bash, to nigger-stomp, to invade, to embargo. Anything that, like baseball, keeps a country that's constantly preening in the mirror from actually looking in the mirror and remembering where the bodies are buried.”
― The Sellout
― The Sellout
“All Vices and Bad Habits Referred to as “Phases” Not Responsible for Scratches, Dents, and Items Left in the Subconscious”
― The Sellout
― The Sellout
“Weary and stuffed from being force-fed the falsehood that when one of your kind makes it, it means that you’ve all made it.”
― The Sellout
― The Sellout
“They had to learn to see me as a sensual woman who desired a full, passionate life—not just a mother whose best years were behind her and whose future was limited to caring for grandchildren and other family members”
― Pussy: A Reclamation
― Pussy: A Reclamation
“I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves us from the cognitive dissonance of being black and innocent.”
― The Sellout
― The Sellout
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