Quotes from Eric Jerome Dickey

And a woman needs a man to protect her from other men. Well, women used to. . . . Things have changed. Women are in the middle East, fighting and protecting men now.

The gun was in Mrs. Jones's left hand. She put her right hand behind her, between my legs, then held on to my cock like it was a leash.

I looked at him, at the debonair man in the suit of all suits . . . . I wasn't in clothes on the level of his, but I wanted the hotel staff to regard me with respect. I grabbed my bag, hoping he wouldn't say anything about me carrying so much, but. I wanted it to look like I was arriving as a guest, not as rented coochie.

Drunken women in very sheer catch-a-cold-or-catch-a-man dresses were acting like they were on spring break in Cancún. Inebriated men in dark suits were . . . making passes and grabbing asses and refilling glasses.

Her young lover changed positions, grabbed her and pulled her rear up high . . . went inside her at a brand-new angle, stroked and grunted. . . . Like he wanted to crawl inside her.

I held his energy in my hand. When it was firm, when it was rising, I let it go, eased it down to his inner thigh, watched it spring back up

He . . . took his wedding ring off, as if he had meant to do it while I showered, then put it on the nightstand, as if that was all it took for a married man to become unmarried . . .

while the man form Orange County booked the room.

Sweat rained from my forehead; my own salt blinded me until I wiped it all away.

Jewell Stewark smiled at me from a billboard, the rain giving her face tears.

I am a man stimulated by intelligence, jazz, lattes, and warm conversations. But intellect is the key. Intelligence rises as beauty fades, time giving the former wings to soar while it whittles away at the latter.

black woman in the room feels invisible.

Yup. Every black girl has to have a white Barbie doll. Black girls will get a black Barbie, but they have to have a white Barbie. The black Barbie never really seems like a true Barbie, not like the queen.

early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!

She's a smart woman. I love that. Intelligence is a wonderful and powerful aphrodisiac. To me, it enhances beauty, makes an ordinary woman look like a movie star.

Hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!

changing horses doesn't mean the ride'll get any better!

find em, fool em, fuck em, forget em

You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.

People pray for rain, then complain about the flood. They pray for it to stop raining, then bitch about the drought.

early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!

People know your tragedies and they treat you like you're not human. Like you're a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? They're stuck on that person I used to be. They can't see that old life as just a moment in time that I've moved on from. It was a horrible life.

no expectations, no disappointments!

love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!