
The Sellout: A Novel

America’s newest race, the Celebrity.
Paul Beatty • The Sellout: A Novel
He said people mistake suicide, murder, lap band surgery, interracial marriage, and overtipping for closure, when in reality what they’ve achieved is erasure.
Paul Beatty • The Sellout: A Novel
This traffic-court jester did more than tell jokes; he plucked out your subconscious and beat you silly with it, not until you were unrecognizable, but until you were recognizable.
Paul Beatty • The Sellout: A Novel
“community” where one could experience the Latin root of the word, where a citizen could revel in common togetherness.
Paul Beatty • The Sellout: A Novel
“It’s illegal to yell ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater, right?” “It is.” “Well, I’ve whispered ‘Racism’ in a post-racial world.”
Paul Beatty • The Sellout: A Novel
From the music clubs to the jailhouses to the fact that you can find Korean taco trucks only in white neighborhoods, L.A. is a mind-numbingly racially segregated city. But the epicenter of social apartheid is the stand-up comedy scene.
Paul Beatty • The Sellout: A Novel
Unlike Foy and me, she was resigned to her situation, because she knows that in Dickens it be like that sometimes, even when it doesn’t have to be.
Paul Beatty • The Sellout: A Novel
did sympathize with his and Charisma’s need for an on-call Caucasian panopticon.
Paul Beatty • The Sellout: A Novel
Silence can be either protest or consent, but most times it’s fear.