Out There Screaming Quotes

“The flattening of the human experience in the last . . . I don’t know, fifty years, can point to the simulation winding down.” “Flattening?” Kam asked. “Has it seemed at all like shit’s just kind of run its course? Problems are obvious and no one’s that invested in fixing them? No new discoveries, no new ideas. All the new arguments are the same as the old arguments. Lost the plot with art and entertainment. Everything’s AI or a remix or remaster or expansion of the same five IPs.”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

“Over time, I forgot that beneath the playground of passing cars was the disturbed burial ground of people who thought they were free.”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

“Know your place. Stay in your place. But if you build your place into something nice, they want to take it from you. All they needed was an excuse.”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

“They thought that we were too young to understand, but children knew. We learned the lesson early, felt it down to our bones: Of all the tools of oppression, fear was the cruelest”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

“I have a condition. I have a condition with an ugly name. One of the symptoms of this ugly condition is that I am afraid, profoundly, that I will be abandoned. The doctor says this fear is irrational, even though I have been abandoned before.”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

“I view horror as catharsis through entertainment. It’s a way to work through your deepest pain and fear—but for Black people that isn’t possible, and for many decades wasn’t possible, without the stories being told in the first place.”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

“My sister was a fool in the particular way that only someone who was too smart to be such a fool could be a fool.”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

“Then two years ago at a Florida hospital, a newborn unfolds his jaw and eats half a nurse’s face.”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

“Zelda knows he’s not happy, but he won’t make a fuss, because he understands, just like Zelda, that sometimes the best monster hunters are monsters themselves.”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

“Probably better to shoot than arrest her, really; dead women file no lawsuits.”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

“Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut.”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

“I’ll show you who’s crazy,” I whisper.”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

“Then two years ago at a Florida hospital, a newborn unfolds his jaw and eats half a nurse’s face. And you think, it’s Miami, it happens,”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

“sometimes the best monster hunters are monsters themselves.”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

“This was the desert—and desert’s gonna desert.”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

“JESUS IS WATCHING. Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut.”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

“It was the sensation of the unknown becoming more than some abstract thought. It was present and tangible and clammy to the touch, burrowed so viscerally inside of and surrounding her, she was sure she could see it if only she had some fucking light”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

“Why’d we take this job, again?” “Living ain’t free,”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

“This is why they fear us. They live with their secret shame, their secret terror that we might do to them what they’ve done to us. We don’t depend on them, don’t need them. We ‘don’t know our place,’ and they see that we’re a well-armed militia.”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

“Has it seemed at all like shit’s just kind of run its course? Problems are obvious and no one’s that invested in fixing them? No new discoveries, no new ideas. All the new arguments are the same as the old arguments. Lost the plot with art and entertainment. Everything’s AI or a remix or remaster or expansion of the same five IPs.”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

“Us and them. Those born on this island and those who crowned it the jewel of an empire.”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

“What the fuck am I even talking about? Grad school is bad for the brain.”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

“Then two years ago at a Florida hospital, a newborn unfolds his jaw and eats half a nurse’s face. And you think, it’s Miami, it happens, until the video comes in.”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

“The local megachurch has them everywhere, trying to scare people into buying their pastor another beach house.”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

“You are, you fool. You are my Art. And your own Art. Just from being observed, you are the Art of the universe.”
― Justin C. Key, Out There Screaming

“You are, you fool. You are my Art. And your own Art. Just from begin observed, you are the Art of the universe.”
― Justin C. Key, Out There Screaming

“is he okay? of course not dumb hearts are supposed to go on the inside that’s like the number one thing about hearts”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

“Five, six, seven arms reaching out into the darkness. Finally, one touches the bag, and all the arms seize upon it like wild animals dragging away a carcass.”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

“I swear, there must be some genetic well of low self-esteem that makes humans look for something, anything, to worship. Give us a glimpse of a more powerful, sentient entity and some of us will offer up our wombs as incubators.”
― Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

“He’d never done anything like that before, but people often never do things right before they always do them.”
― Violet Allen, Out There Screaming