All I Did Was Shoot My Man Quotes

“It's not that racism doesn't exist. Lots of people in New York, and elsewhere, hate because of color and gender, religion and national origin. It's just that I rarely worry about those things because there's a real world underneath all that nonsense; a world that demands my attention almost every second of the day.

Racism is a luxury in a world where resources are scarce, where economic competition is an armed sport, in a world where even the atmosphere is plotting against you. In an arena like that racism is more of a halftime entertainment, a favorite sitcom when the day is done.”
― Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man

“There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.”
― Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man

“That would be like me tellin' a gosling not to migrate down south his first mature season. You got to go. Got to. There's gonna be snakes and foxes, and in your case, [...], there might even be men with guns.”
― Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man

“I wondered if I could just drop the role I carried like a mantle of a dethroned prince.”
― Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man

“Not for the first time in my life I had made it to the top. For some reason this made me hanker for a chili dog with chopped onions under a blanket of processed American cheese.”
― Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man

“Yeah. If you’ve never been knocked down, then you’ve never been in a fight.”
― Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man

“Kit [Carson Kitteridge] watched me for a few moments before saying, "That was some impressive killing you did. Naked too."
"I hope I didn't embarrass Office Palmer."
"She said that after all she heard about you she thought your johnson would be bigger."
"Tell her that the air conditioner was on.”
― Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man

“The girl was cinnamon colored in the way of Native America after it had been raped by Europe.”
― Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man

“I don’t give a fuck what you’re trying to do or what you want. I’d send your ass away if you were a white man with a red ribbon tied around your dick.”
― Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man

“anticoagulant.”
― Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man

“I’m a twenty-first-century New Yorker and therefore have little time to contemplate race. It’s not that racism doesn’t exist. Lots of people in New York, and elsewhere,”
― Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man

“Lots of people in New York, and elsewhere, hate because of color and gender, religion and national origin.”
― Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man

“The value of silence was a lesson most young men never learned.”
― Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man

“The Buddhists tell you that you have to be mindful of every act, and acquiescence, in your life. They say that life, everything you do and don’t do, is an action that must be brought into the light of consciousness.”
― Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man

“Racism is a luxury in a world where resources are scarce, where economic competition is an armed sport, in a world where even the atmosphere is plotting against you. In an arena like that racism is more a halftime entertainment, a favorite sitcom when the day is done.”
― Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man

“I’m a twenty-first-century New Yorker and therefore have little time to contemplate race. It’s not that racism doesn’t exist. Lots of people in New York, and elsewhere, hate because of color and gender, religion and national origin. It’s just that I rarely worry about those things because there’s a real world underneath all that nonsense; a world that demands my attention almost every moment of every day.”
― Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man

“The problem with people like Antoinette, people who have only partly comprehended that race is no longer the primary defining factor of American life, is that they, her and her kind, unknowingly keep watch over the masters’ wealth; and that the power of that wealth maintains all the ignorance of centuries of classism, racism, and the hierarchy that ignorance demands.”
― Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man

“No. What I wonder is why would you care?” “I’m a cop, LT. It’s my job to protect the welfare of even garbage like you.”
― Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man

“the hard-eyed receptionist, was white and wrinkled. She wore glasses and had not smiled in years.”
― Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man