The Scammer Quotes

“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost all the time." So oh yes the state of this world makes me very angry. But i do not let anger dictate the road I travel on, I choose joy."
To build a future that is rooted in equality and liberation, you must imagine and pretend that it is possible. And the key parts of imagination is joy. Joy is an act of resistance, it's revolutionary. The fact that our people have survived, and thrived, defying expectation and insurmountable odds.. that deserves to be celebrated.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, The Scammer

“The new backbone I acquired won’t let me turn around. Especially since I may never get this chance again.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, The Scammer

“My dear”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, The Scammer

“She laughs. “Lawd”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, The Scammer

“I’ve been cooking and cleaning”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, The Scammer

“You wanted to sleep with him. You wanted him inside you. You couldn’t help yourself.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, The Scammer

“Did you know that the late great James Baldwin spent a considerable amount of time abroad in places like Paris and Turkey? He said it best, ‘To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost all the time.’ So, oh yes, the state of this world makes me very angry. But I do not let anger dictate the road I travel on. I choose joy.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, The Scammer

“I don’t think the people who commit suicide are intentionally being selfish or thoughtless. I think they’re too blinded by the pain of living to be rational and think things through. They don’t mean to hurt you. They don’t even mean to hurt themselves.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, The Scammer

“How can you think of ‘fun’ when there’s thousands of innocent Black men in prison and families being torn apart. Do you really want to contribute to the capitalist machine and fill the white man’s pockets? None of the money that will be made this weekend will go to the people in need.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, The Scammer

“What people don’t know is that private corporations run prisons for profit. It’s part of the prison industrial complex. The more beds they fill”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, The Scammer

“We just don’t want to come off like some corny-ass freshmen,” Loren warns”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, The Scammer

“Y’all are a generation who’ve seen lynching and police brutality in real time”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, The Scammer

“Loneliness has a way of holding a mirror up, showing the emptiness of your life that you’re too ashamed to admit that you’re ashamed of, despite it not being your fault.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, The Scammer