Iceberg Slim

Robert Beck (August 4, 1918 – April 30, 1992), who wrote under the pen name Iceberg Slim, was an American pimp who became an influential author among a primarily African-American readership.

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"It’s hard to square an emotional debt."

- Iceberg Slim

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"Chumps prefer a beautiful lie to an ugly truth."

- Iceberg Slim

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"I’m here tonight appearing before you as a well individual, free of the street poison that put me into the kind of position where I brutalized and exploited our Black queens. You have to have a realization that when you exploit your own kind … you are, in effect, counterrevolutionary; that you are hobbling and crippling the struggle of Black people for freedom and dignity."

- Iceberg Slim

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