“Silence can be either protest or consent, but most times it’s fear.” 3. History is the things that stay with you.” 2. It’s memory, and memory is time, emotions, and song. But history isn’t the paper it’s printed on. 'That’s the problem with history, we like to think it’s a book-that we can turn the page and move the fuck on.

The Sellout by Paul Beatty, $12, Amazon 1. Don't believe me or the judges who chose the it out of 155 books? Maybe these 7 The Sellout quotes will convince you to add this Booker winner to your TBR list. After segregating the local high school with the help of friend and town celebrity Hominy Jenkins, Me gets a slave, a crime that gets the attention of the Supreme Court.Ī hilarious and heartbreaking novel that stares deep into the heart of America's darkest race issues, Paul Beatty's novel is a must-read. After his father is fatally wounded in a police shooting, Me throws all of his energy into fixing the things he can, namely stop his town from being wiped from existence. The story's narrator, Me, is a black man living in Dickens, a small town on the outskirts of Los Angeles that has literally been taken off the map. If you haven't had a chance to read his prize-winning novel yet, these The Sellout quotes will convince you the novel deserved the prize.Ī satirical novel about American race relations and politics, The Selloutis the story of one man's desperate attempt to save his town by doing the unthinkable: reinstating slavery and segregation. Novelist and writer Paul Beatty became the first American author to win the Man Booker Prize on Tuesday.