December 2010
Pimp Anthropology | This American Life →
This entire show is devoted to just one story. A former pimp tells how he and three childhood friends became pimps in the 1970s in Oakland, California. He explains all the elaborate “rules of the game” among pimps and prostitutes of that era. He didn’t have the stomach for the violence of pimping, and failed as a pimp because of that. Tamar Brott reports.
“When we were children, we used to think that when we grew up, we would no longer...”
– Madeleine L’Engle (via makingdens)
“I happen to believe the world will change only when we change ourselves. And...”
– Kelly Cutrone - If You Have To Cry Go Outside, And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You (via quote-book)
“Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole...”
– Ray Bradbury (via paxmachina)
