Why are the mainstream buzz things rarely contemporary? It doesn't happen very often. It's hard to feel culpable or implicated or even apathetic.
Paul BeattyIn The Sellout I tried to capture how we can talk and see race, how we see urbanity, and how we see our history.
Paul BeattyContradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?"
Paul BeattyIt's weird because there is progress somehow. But there's so much that just feels the same. How important is that rank? How important is it that I am allowed to make these decisions? What does that really mean? What is progress? Is it progress that a black guy gets to push a button for the nuclear bomb? Is that progress? Maybe, I don't know.
Paul Beatty