184 Quotes by Victor LaValle

A good hustler isn't curious. A good hustler only wants his pay.

Becoming unremarkable, invisible, compliant--these were useful tricks for a black man in a white neighborhood. Survival techniques.

I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day.

It’s easier to hold onto a bad idea if you never share it, and it’s harder to defend one if you let it out.

Oppression doesn’t make people noble. Give any of us a little comfort, and we’ll kill to keep it. The despised become despicable.

Fuck the meek. The despised will inherit the earth!

His life had been disrupted, but not his billing cycles.

Queens, New York. The most ethnically diverse region not just in the United States, but on the entire planet... In Queens, you will find Korean kids who sound like black kids. Italians who sound like Puerto Ricans. Puerto Ricans who sound like Italians. Third-generation Irish who sound like old Jews. That's Queens. Not a melting pot, not even a tossed salad, but an all-you-can-eat, mix-and-match buffet.

Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.