April 2010
4 posts
Middle-aged black woman comes down the stairs of her house, casually dressed in black sweats and pink Crocs.
Younger woman walking with a friend on the other side of Lewis Ave. in fresh Nike Air Max sees her and shouts, “Hey girl! How you doin?”
Pink Crocs: “Heeeey! How YOU doin’? How’re my girls?”
Air Max, never slowing her stride: “Too grown.”
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The older girl, about 8 years old, to the younger girl of about 4: “When y’all come from school, put on some play shoes ‘cause I’mma take you and Kira to…”
4 year-old was riveted.
Thought of them a few minutes later in the supermarket and smiled.
(via @feminista09)
Overheard from an apartment in Bed-Stuy at 2AM on a Saturday night/technically Sunday morning. A (most probably) drunken dude on the street outside speaking to women who could be heard for a second but were obviously walking away from him. “Save your money. Save your fucking money. Stop buying those high heels and save your money, Ma. GOD BLESS YOU!”
(via @feminista09)
Overheard through the window of Brooklyn apartment… Child on the street crying. Woman 1: “It’s your own fault.” Woman 2: “Your head hurts? Cause you screaming like you ain’t got no sense!” Child cries louder.
(via @feminista09)
March 2010
5 posts
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Two black boys, around 7 or 8 years old, walking hurriedly down the street in Bed-Stuy on a rainy afternoon.
Boy #1: “I’m gonna tell you why you’re a punk… [inaudible]”
A few seconds later, Boy #2: “Awww, man!”
If that was his response, maybe his frenemy had a point?
(via @feminista09)
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Short-haired, cool-looking white woman wearing black leather jacket, jeans, open-toed wedges and black toe nail polish. Bopping down Montague St. in Bklyn Heights alone, to no one in particular and without prompting: “Hells yeah…”
(via @feminista09)
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Where: NYU Lounge
When: Just before Christmas break
Who: Two alums and a teacher. One alum decidedly more dick-headish than the other. Alum #1: “I’m happy. It’s kind of slow now, with the holiday season and all, but I have no complaints. Just hoping to make some money in the new year, you know?” (laughs) Teacher: “Oh, no worries. That’s definitely coming to...
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Arab-American proprietor of the local bodega, talking on the phone as he pleasantly rings up customers: “I turned you on to that twitter shit, now you on there more than him. Stop sweatin’ my boy!”
(via @feminista09)
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Walking past 2 young brothas, chatting on Lewis Ave. in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Guy 1: “Bad bitches out here…” Guy 2: “I know. Stupid bitches. I got bitches that I stay with but…” On the way back 5 minutes later…
Guy 2: “So, listen nigga, I was like this. Lemme stay with my loyal bitch…”
(via @feminista09 who says: “What made this...
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Frozen food aisle of small, somewhat ghetto supermarket in Bed-Stuy, Bklyn (that always has jamming music playing). Black boy, about 7 years-old, quietly to himself, while his mother is a couple of feet away: “P-p-p-poker face, poker face…”
(via @feminista09)
December 2009
11 posts
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Twentysomething chick at Applebees: “Every time I have a baby the fuckin’ government comes and takes it.”
(via @BenjaminHickey)
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Middle-aged, potbellied, b-boy walking down the street in Bed-Stuy, talking on the phone: “See, that’s why I don’t like that nigga. He’s selfish. He’s parsimonious!”
(via @feminista09)
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Ten years ago. My grandfather’s funeral. Open casket, surrounded by flickering candles.
My 4 year old cousin: “Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you…”
Everyone else, uncomfortably: “Happy birthday, dear Papa…”
(via @feminista09)
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Restaurant in downtown Baltimore:
Girl 1: “Andre wants to be a thug, but I told him to stop faking. He’s got a library card.”
Girl 2: “Yeah, he’s no Freeway!”
(via @djenygma)
5 tags
Where: Hillside Avenue, Jamaica, NY
Who: A little black girl in braids standing outside a hair salon with her father.
What: Points to the salon’s poster of Taylor Swift, in all of her long, blond, wavy haired glory, and says to her dad: “Daddy, I want my hair like that! I want my hair like that!”
Dad: “Taylor Swift is a donkey ass!”
(via @chartastical)
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Whole Foods, Union Square. Woman on cell, reaching for a muffin: “I don’t have a personal relationship with God, Ma. Haven’t I atoned enough?!”
(via @feminista09)
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Middle-aged, butch-looking, drunk-sounding, black woman stomping down the street in Bed-Stuy, close to midnight on July 4th, shouting into her cell phone: “Go to hell. Go to damn hell! What she gonna do? Fuck her! Got a crackhead fuckin’ daddy! Fuck you!” Five minutes later, stomping down the street in the other direction, voice focused: “I need you to send somebody to...
3 tags
NYC, Madison and 40th. Young white girl yelling into cell phone: “FUCK YOU!!”
Older female passerby: “You know, I never understood why that is an insult.”
(via @carolynedgar)
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Two white guys on line at the bank talking about going home for the holidays. “Yo, when you was a kid, I would eat like 2-3 sticks of butter a day and Moms would keep buying that shit like it was normal!”
(via @Feyishara)
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Black woman, 60ish, talking to co-worker while on line at Brooklyn post office. “You can’t live in this world alone but I don’t want to be bothered. People come to me and I say, ‘Leave me alone. Go with your clique. Go talk about somebody else.’ I just want peace and tranquility.”
(via @feminista09)
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NYC. 14th Street. Middle aged black dude, walking with a friend, points to a well-groomed dog tied up to a hydrant. “Now that’s a pretty motherfucker.”
(via @feminista09)