Pimp Quotes

“The pimp has a grin, never a smile.”
― Jean Genet, The Balcony

“If I were going to put a price tag on my lady parts, I’d find a more appetizing buyer.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Call Me Irresistible

“Pimping is an art, Whoreson. There are very few pimps in this world who can really take the title of being a pimp. Just because a man gets his money from a whore, that don't make him no true pimp. Real pimps are really rare.”
― Donald Goines, Whoreson: The Story of a Ghetto Pimp

“When hip-hop was born she had no commercial home, and was an invention of beautiful creativity. Born from a beautiful struggle, today she is mostly a 'ratchet' bitch spitting nonsense from her pimp's mansion.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“This volume is dedicated to time.
It gives us memories, fine wine, and wrinkles.
But the only thing worse than getting old is not getting old.
So here's to time, dear reader, yours and mine.
May you have many more wrinkles, a lot of fine wine,
and memories to last two lifetimes.”
― Iceberg Slim, Airtight Willie & Me

“A drone is often preferred for missions that are too "dull, dirty, or dangerous" for manned aircraft.”

PROLOGUE

The graffiti was in Spanish, neon colors highlighting the varicose cracks in the wall. It smelled of urine and pot. The front door was metal with four bolt locks and the windows were frosted glass, embedded with chicken wire. They swung out and up like big fake eye-lashes held up with a notched adjustment bar.

This was a factory building on the near west side of Cleveland in an industrial area on the Cuyahoga River known in Ohio as The Flats.

First a sweatshop garment factory, then a warehouse for imported cheeses then a crack den for teenage potheads. It was now headquarters for Magic Slim, the only pimp in Cleveland with his own film studio and training facility.

Her name was Cosita, she was eighteen looking like fourteen. One of nine children from El Chorillo. a dangerous poverty stricken barrio on the outskirts of Panama City. Her brother, Javier, had been snatched from the streets six months ago, he was thirteen and beautiful.

Cosita had a high school education but earned here degree on the streets of Panama.

Interpol, the world's largest international police organization, had recruited Cosita at seventeen. She was smart, street savvy, motivated and very pretty. Just what Interpol was looking for.

Cosita would become a Drone!”
― Nick Hahn

“The birthday party was me and her, a whore friend of hers and her pimp, and the cake.”
― Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: Monograph

“At last a lifetime ambition of mine to become a pimp was satisfied.”
― Jack Woodford, The Autobiography of Jack Woodford

“For some days before, as well as for some nights, Vincent had observed a shadow about the quays. First because it had tried to sell him an obscene book, then because it tried to sell André an obscene book, then because it tried to sell everybody an obscene book.”
― Mary Butts, The Complete Stories

“I leaped up because I had once told my cellmate that Jesus was a pimp, and that she, Sister Claire, had just confirmed that it was true.”
― Sister Souljah, Life After Death