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.

Quotes

• It’s hard to square an emotional debt.
  • Pimp: The Story of My Life (1967)
• Chumps prefer a beautiful lie to an ugly truth.
  • Trick Baby: The Biography of a Con Man (1967)

• 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.
  • "The Black Pimp" (1971 episode of the TV program Black Journal)