Hustlers, Beats, and Others Quotes

“The only thoroughly beat Negro scene is the Maracanda, where most of the clientele are junkies and Charlie Parker is the squarest thing on the jukebox.”
― Ned Polsky, Hustlers, Beats, and Others

“Of course, the hustler doesn't proclaim his trade to the outside world, for typically he has neither a masochistic urge to be put down nor the reactive hostility to majority opinion that one finds in the flamboyant homosexual or "professional Negro" or "professional Jew" and the like.”
― Ned Polsky, Hustlers, Beats, and Others