A character in Angels in America
Tied for 5th most-quoted character in Angels in America: in 3 of its 23 quotes
Most scenes with: Louis Ironson (2), Norman Arriaga (2)
But I've got better things with my time than to sit here and listen to this racist bullshit simply because I feel sorry for you-
I am not racist!
Oh, come on.
…So maybe I am a racist.
Scoffs I really hate that. It's no fun picking on you, Louis. You're so guilty. It's like throwing darts at a glob of jello. There are no satisfying hits, just quivering. The darts just plop in and vanish.
Look at that heavy sky out there.
Purple.
Purple? Boy, what kind of a homosexual are you anyway? That's not purple, Mary. That color up there is mauve.
[delirious, under the impression that Belize is the Angel of Death] Can I ask you something, sir?
"Sir"?
What's it like? After?
After...?
This misery ends?
Hell or heaven?
[laughs]
Like San Francisco.
A city! Good! I was worried... it'd be a garden. I hate that shit.
Mmmm. Big city. Overgrown with weeds, but flowering weeds. On every corner a wrecking crew and something new and crooked going up catty corner to that. Windows missing in every edifice like broken teeth, gritty wind, and a gray high sky full of ravens.
Isaiah.
Prophet birds, Roy. Piles of trash, but lapidary like rubies and obsidian, and diamond-colored cow spit streamers in the wind. And voting booths. And everyone in Balenciaga gowns with red corsages, and big dance palaces full of music and lights and racial impurity and gender confusion. And all the deities are creole, mulatto, brown as the mouths of rivers. Race, taste and history finally overcome. And you ain't there.
And Heaven?
That was Heaven, Roy.
The fuck it was!
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Angels in America · 23 quotes
