“What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?”
Jonathan Lethem book The Fortress of Solitude
Source: The Fortress of Solitude
Il ragazzo morto non era uno dei nostri, era un black block.
as quoted on TG5, Canale 5, (July 20, 2001)
from the first statement to the press on the death of protester Carlo Giuliani at the 27th G8 summit in Genoa
“What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?”
Jonathan Lethem book The Fortress of Solitude
Source: The Fortress of Solitude
David Gemmell book The Swords of Night and Day
Source: Drenai series, The Swords of Night and Day, Ch. 14
Truman Capote (1924–1984) American author
Quoted in The London Review of Books http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n01/hasl02_.html (6 January 2000)
“The boy was dead eager, which could soon lead to plain dead.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Mat, about Olver
(11 October 2005)
“Don't worry, goat boy. The milkman is dead.”
Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth
Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth
“When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.”
George Burns (1896–1996) American comedian, actor, and writer