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Blackjack QUOTES

1 " Blackjack," Percy said, " this is Piper and Jason. They're friends." The horse nickered." Uh, maybe later," Percy answered.Piper had heard that Percy could speak to horses, being the son of the horse lord Poseidon, but she'd never seen it in action." What does Blackjack want?" she asked." Donuts," Percy said. " Always donuts. "

2 " But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually degraded and demoralized and in whom he had left his seed so their bastard children would be a daily visual reminder of what a plantation white man could do to a plantation black woman whenever he wanted, nor could he count the black men whom he had made fear his blackjack as they would fear Satan himself, making each of them a lifetime enemy of all white people. "

― James Lee Burke , Jolie Blon's Bounce (Dave Robicheaux, #12)

3 " Just because your electronics are better than ours, you aren't necessarily superior in any way. Look, imagine that you humans are a man in LA with a brand-new Trujillo and we are a nuhp in New York with a beat-up old Ford. The two fellows start driving toward St. Louis. Now, the guy in the Trujillo is doing 120 on the interstates, and the guy in the Ford is putting along at 55; but the human in the Trujillo stops in Vegas and puts all of his gas money down the hole of a blackjack table, and the determined little nuhp cruises along for days until at last he reaches his goal. It's all a matter of superior intellect and the will to succeed.

Your people talk a lot about going to the stars, but you just keep putting your money into other projects, like war and popular music and international athletic events and resurrecting the fashions of previous decades. If you wanted to go into space, you would have. "

― George Alec Effinger , Live! from Planet Earth

4 " You know you're smarter than all of them, right?" Hale said flatly." In fact, if you wanted to PROVE it..." He glanced at the blackjack tables.Simon shook his head. " I don't count cards, Hale." " Don't?" Hale smiled. " Or won't? You know, technically, it's not illegal." " But it's frowned upon." Sweat beaded at Simon's brow. He sounded like someone had just suggested he swim after eating... run with scissors... " It is SERIOUSLY frowned upon. "

5 " People think blood red, but blood don't got no colour. Not when blood wash the floor she lying on as she scream for that son of a bitch to come, the lone baby of 1785. Not when the baby wash in crimson and squealing like it just depart heaven to come to hell, another place of red. Not when the midwife know that the mother shed too much blood, and she who don't reach fourteen birthday yet speak curse 'pon the chile and the papa, and then she drop down dead like old horse. Not when blood spurt from the skin, on spring from the axe, the cat-o'-nine, the whip, the cane and the blackjack and every day in slave life is a day that colour red. It soon come to pass when red no different from white or blue or black or nothing. Two black legs spread wide and mother mouth screaming. A black baby wiggling in blood on the floor with skin darker than midnight but the greenest eyes anybody ever done seen. I goin' call her Lilith. You can call her what they call her. "

― Marlon James , The Book of Night Women

6 " God alert!" Blackjack yelled. " It's the wine dude!Mr. D sighed in exasperation. " The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot! "

7 " Then something occurred to me." Get closer," I told Blackjack.He whinnied in protest." Just within shouting distance," I said. " I need to talk to the statue." Now I'm sure you've lost it, boss, Blackjack said "