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"The Sellout" Quotes
A satirical exploration of race and identity in a fictional city called Dickens, as the protagonist challenges societal norms and attempts to reinstate slavery and segregation.
Quotes
If I could begin to answer that question than it wouldn’t be worth asking.
Sometimes the only way to move forward is to rewind.
Ain't nothin' more dangerous than a gangsta-ass nigger with a library card.
No wonder 'independent' and 'individual' are so similar, except for those two pivotal letters of gender.
I am just a man who is trying to do the right thing.
Children should be seen until they have something to say that's interesting and probably a little bit precocious as well.
Any self-respecting individual should also have a self-respecting community to corrupt by example, a self-respecting community he can enrich, as always, with the fruits of his resolute minor corruption.
The truth is, it takes an awful lot of time and money just to be mediocre.
There's nothing that scares white folks more than the threat of black empowerment.
I'm not the New Negro; I'm the Original Negro. And I'm not even black . . . yet.
