Slay Quotes
"Because I’m the game developer. Nobody knows. Not even my family. Not even my boyfriend, Malcolm."
"I want you to be yourself around me, and around them. I want my Black goddess all the time, but you out here sounding like you work in a call center."
"It’s ours. And I’ll use the word 'ain’t' however I please as soon as I log in."
"It’s hard to remember to text real-life people back when there’s a world of dueling magical beings in your room."
"We are a diaspora. We span hundreds of shades, religions, traditions, and cultural nuances. If you don’t understand what some of these cards mean, blame the slave trade."
"I’m sick and tired of being the only Black girl among all white people. I want to be around people who understand me and don’t expect me to answer asinine questions every day."
"I’m studying for no reason except to make myself feel more prepared."
"I wonder which cards Zama and Presto will be using in round two."
"The Americans assume I’m supposed to be here, and I like that."
"Countering a natural hair card with a weave card? Petty AF."
"Innovation takes whatever you have and makes it better."
"People are a lot more likely to trade items with or do favors for a character who has a lot of SLAY coins to give away."
"You can’t truly be for us if you don’t love us."
"Every mistake you make is because of your skin color and because of 'your background' and because of the music you listen to."
"The whole white world is after the Black nuclear family."
"I think Black gamers deserve to have a safe arena in which they can play freely without having to deal with racial slurs and the threat of violence to them should they win a campaign."
"If Black gamers want their own space online away from the eyes of the majority, let them have it."
"You can’t solve this problem with more division in the gaming community. What we need right now is unity and constructive discourse."
"You let me catch you down here looking at naked girls on that computer again and I’ll drag your ass to the church steps and beat the love of God into you, y’hear?"
"You may have also heard about SLAY in the news. The media has called us thugs. They’ve called us criminals."
"She SLAYs! This woman who became my ultimate style icon twenty minutes ago, and who probably drives a Bentley to her two-million-dollar mega-mansion on Mercer Island after work every day, plays my game!"
"I invented it, as in, I built and launched, and now maintain, the game."
"Hi, uh, I want to make an appointment for a consultation with Annette Coleman."
"Are you prepared to pay that at the time of consultation?"
"Silent, it says. That word is a knife in my stomach."
"I’m surrounded by staring eyes on this train, reminding me that there’s an all-out media manhunt after me, demanding answers."
"If I hadn’t created SLAY, if I hadn’t shared Emerald with the world, that boy—Jamal—would still be alive."
"Do you eat meat?" she asks me again. She definitely knows.
"Please tell me you’re not actually giving him a copy of every card."
"You’re just going to give him all our secrets? Everything we’ve worked for? Just like that?"
"I’m supposed to be leading these people—all half a million of them."
"I didn’t mean put the entire game on the line."
"I don’t know if she’s ready to see the range of Blackness that SLAY covers."
"SLAY is the best and hardest thing I’ve ever done, my best accomplishment."
"I would spend every last dime I have to be back in my mother’s house."
"I’m happy to help. Would you prefer that I explain in Italian, English, or French?"
"Never be distracted by people’s glamorous portraits of themselves and their lives."
"I’m ready to duel. By the power of my ancestors, let’s get this over with."
"Our ancestors. I shut my eyes and put my phone away with the warmth of that thought in my head."
"We can’t exclude them, and they can’t exclude us."
"She’s different ages, genders, tribes, tongues, and traditions. But tonight, we are all Black—most of us."
"I know who Dred is. It turned out to be my boyfriend. He hacked my webcam and the pic is all over."
"Thank God. There’s no lawsuit from Wyatt, and no lawsuit from Malcolm."
"Everyone knows I’m Emerald. Everyone knows my face."
"Because he doesn’t recognize Black excellence when he sees it."
"You can get him expelled, get him kicked out of the city, get a restraining order, but you will not make my boyfriend the next police brutality hashtag."
"I’ve heard so much about you! Heard you’re in school."
"For all of Du Bois’s education, he couldn’t see our potential—not like I can."
"I’ll be there to pick you up from the airport on Saturday morning."