2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 78: I should’ve hospitalized him right then and there. Called the police and had him 5150’d.at 5150, n.
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 51: My favorite [book title] ‘I’m Ai’ight, You’re Ai’ight’.at a-ight, phr.
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 42: The time is always, ‘Half past a monkey’s ass and a quarter to his balls’.at half past a monkey’s ass, phr.
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 263: How else a no-account shiftless nigger like me going to get whip marks on his back?at no-account nigger (n.) under no-account, adj.
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 6: Any business-suit-wearing, cornrowed, dreadlocked, corporate Afro’d black man.at afro, n.
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 67: Like asking some penny-ante lounge singer if they knew the way to San Jose.at penny ante, adj.
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 159: A hand so disgustingly ashy, so white and dry-skinned, that it could only be black.at ashy, adj.
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 12: A secret diary [...] if I tell anyone about it’ll be my ass.at someone’s ass, to be, v.
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 84: The first five ‘coons,’ ‘jigaboos,’ ‘tar babies,’ and ‘Sambos’ were free. After that, it was three dollars an epithet.at tar baby, n.
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 20: Here the lawyers argue, the judges question, and I get to simply kick back and enjoy my high.at kick back, v.2
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 18: It’s a guilt that has obligated me to mutter ‘My bad’ for [...] every politician under federal investigation, every bug-eyed and Rastus-voiced comedian, and every black film made since 1968.at my bad under bad, n.
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 69: Dry-humping the TV [...] Punctuating his blue-balls roll call with increasingly violent thrusts.at blue balls (n.) under balls, n.
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 103: Why do you go to these meetings? Shouldn’t you be out slanging and banging?at bang, v.5
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 203: It was like [...] when you enter a banging-ass house party and shit’s bumping.at banging, adj.
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 285: A large truly funny black person would scare the bejeezus out of America.at bejazus, n.
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 270: A conservative Catholic Justice flips off a liberal Catholic Justice.at flip a/the bird (v.) under bird, n.2
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 184: You think after Rosa parks bitch-slapped white America, some white rednecks going to go out of their way to save the original bus?at bitch slap, v.
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 17: That’s the bitch of it, to be on trial for my life, and for the first time ever not feel guilty.at bitch, n.1
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 117: The bitchin’ and firme hot rods and lowriders that grace the covers of custom-car magazines.at bitching, adj.
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 13: Blood in, blood out . . . Minuo in, minuo sicco.at blood in, blood out under blood, n.1
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 16: Ample bosoms first, she hops the rail, bogarts her way past the cops, and bolts towards me.at bogart, v.
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 33: [He’d] steal Pop’s classic Karmann Ghia [...] and we’d bone the fuck out.at bone out, v.
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 7: I clear my pipe with two loud raps on the mahagony table [and] stuff the bowl with homegrown.at bowl, n.
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 61: ‘Shit, ostrich meat is indeed the future!’ It sounds like a financial no-brainer.at no-brainer, n.
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 178: Bubba the redneck, a nigger, and a Mexican are sitting at the same bus stop.at bubba, n.
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 177: Is there a black buck Rebecca ain’t fucked from here to Natchez?at buck, n.1
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 39: Oh the buckwild charge they made! / All the motherfuckin’ world wondered.at buck-wild, adj.
2015 P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 203: It was like [...] when you enter a banging-ass house party and shit’s bumping.at bumping, adj.