“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 of the cognitive dissonance of being black and innocent, and in a way the prospect of going… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
There are things I don't like, like sitting at the head of the class. It makes me uncomfortable. I'll do it in a seminar… — Paul Beatty Copy Share
In The Sellout I tried to capture how we can talk and see race, how we see urbanity, and how we see our history. — Paul Beatty Copy Share
In White Boy Shuffle, I combined my seventh-grade teacher, Mr. Takemoto, who really saved me - I don't think I've ever told anyone this… — Paul Beatty Copy Share
I co-taught a seminar called Small Group Processes with my professor. I learned so much from it, so much about myself, about groups, how… — Paul Beatty Copy Share
I'll say this, and it'll sound like bullshit, but it's not: I don't really pay attention to this stuff [Man Booker Prize] very much.… — Paul Beatty Copy Share
“Hereos. Idols. They're never who you think they are. Shorter. Nastier. Smellier. And when you finally meet them, there's something that makes you want… — Paul Beatty Copy Share
There are many similarities between Germans and blacks. The nouns themselves are loaded with so much historical baggage it's impossible for anyone to be… — Paul Beatty Copy Share
Like when you have the right title for something you're writing and you get lost - you can always go back to the title… — Paul Beatty Copy Share
I had a student once come up to me and we were talking about this incident, and, of course, I never had the right… — Paul Beatty Copy Share
There are always so many things happening [to us] at one time. We read Isherwood's A Single Man in class, and we had to… — Paul Beatty Copy Share
I forget how beautiful and calm California is. It's not so much about the place, but also the age that I came to the… — Paul Beatty Copy Share
“My litmus test of compatibility is 'Tom Cruise.' I hate people who hate Tom Cruise, cultural automatons who at the mention of his name… — Paul Beatty Copy Share
I think there's nothing new going on. Except that, you're even more public than you've ever been.There's some good and some bad to that. — Paul Beatty Copy Share
“Would he read the paper and see that the Union he saved was now a dysfunctional plutocracy,” — Paul Beatty Copy Share
