In an interview with Lee Daniels, Sapphire said
when she finished the book, Push, she knew she had
done something lasting, even if the book was never published,
but I looked her up in Google and it said she got a famous feminist agent,
who sold it to Knopf for $500,000 before it was finished. That is, she got
half a million dollars based on a sample and an outline. And there must have been
talk of a movie deal, if not an actual deal in place. And what of her nom de plume,
Sapphire, after the black female ball-buster and male-castrator on Amos ’n’ Andy,
Kingfish’s wife? Was that an accident? Surely not. It was the revenge of the peckhorn.
Former sex-industry worker and self-proclaimed lesbian taught disadvantaged black
youth. Obesity, illiteracy, chronic welfare dependency, domestic abuse.
Drugs, gangs, graffiti. AIDS. It’s a plot by the CIA.
It’s white people business.
Now it can be told.
On Oprah.
I did this? I, Mr. Baldwin?