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) External links Category:Businesspeople from the United States Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Memoirists from the United States Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Autobiographers from the United States Category:People from Chicago Category:People from Milwaukee Category:African Americans Category:People charged with crimes Category:1918 births Category:1992 deaths