Slave Play Quotes

“In the aftermath of confronting and dissecting racial trauma the people in the room who were the first to verbalize their experience of the trauma’s confrontation were those who have the closest proximity to white supremacy.”
― Jeremy O. Harris, Slave Play

“Sometimes when people have OCD when they do a more strenuous mental task they don’t find themselves stricken with whatever it is that causes them anxiety usually.”
― Jeremy O. Harris, Slave Play

“I don’t even know if I like you. I just know that whatever love I have for you is the only reason I’m even talking to you right now.”
― Jeremy O. Harris, Slave Play

“when they brought us ova-
y'all did
try to tear it way from us.
The truth of our bodies?
The way they moved
Our bodies.
Told us it
was
devilish
Our bodies
told us that it won't
fit
for civ'lized eyes”
― Jeremy O. Harris, Slave Play