Paul Beatty Quotes
- If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
- 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 indifferent…
- I'm not very pious about anything, fortunately, but I'm skewering myself first. I'm skewering things that I care about and things that are important to…
- There's this line between propriety and how we really speak and how we really think. And I'm just trying to have fun with that stuff.
- I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me…
- I think everybody focuses on race, but it's about a ton of things, and I just see these things as all interrelated and all interwoven…
- I can't say that I love writing, but I do love the satisfaction that it gives me.
- I don't know exactly what a black Chinese restaurant would be, but I would sure love to see one.
- All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.