Author:  Paul Beatty
Book:    The Sellout
Viewed: 88 - Published at: 5 years ago

Daddy never believed in closure. He said it was a false psychological concept. Something invented by therapists to assuage white Western guilt. In all his years of study and practice, he'd never heard a patient of color talk of needing "closure." They needed revenge. They needed distance. Forgiveness and a good lawyer maybe, but never closure. He said people mistake suicide, murder, lap band surgery, interracial marriage, and overtipping for closure, when in reality what they've achieved is erasure.

( Paul Beatty )
[ The Sellout ]
www.QuoteSweet.com

TAGS :