Live Like a Pimp: An Uncommon Guide to Uncommon Success
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Live Like a Pimp: An Uncommon Guide to Uncommon Success
Easing himself out of his gold Cadillac in his silk suit and fur cape, swaggering with a walking stick and platform shoes, and lording it over a stable of prostitutes in short, tight skirts, the pimp is the stuff of legend. Some would argue that the flamboyant pimp of the blaxploitation movies is largely fiction, but even if the colorful ghetto pimp is no more than an urban legend, he appeals to men at an instinctive level. In his heart of hearts, every man wants to be a pimp.
Every man longs to walk proudly, to call attention to himself, to hold fistfuls of cash, to command a harem and the respect of his peers. Men want these things, and want them desperately, but as Thoreau observed, they never talk about or act on their secret longings. Men will go from cradle to grave working their asses off, paying for sex, and secretly envying the audacious pimp.
Ignore the clown pimp, the cracker who dresses up for Halloween in a “pimp†costume. I am asking you to take the idea of becoming a pimp, a modern pimp, seriously.
What do I mean by a “modern pimp�
The pimp has a lot to teach men about getting what they want out of life, without excuses. The pimp is able to create the life of his fantasies out of nothing. Poverty, lack of education, high unemployment, discrimination, age, physical appearance, government opposition –none are obstacles to the pimp. If a man at the very bottom of society with everything stacked against him can live the life every man dreams of, then so can you; but first you must want it, and you must know how.
This book tells you how. Keep in mind that the point is not for you to wear a yellow jumpsuit and employ prostitutes in the ghetto –the objective is for you to live large the life of your secret desires, whatever form that might take. So the pimp serves as an inspiration and a metaphor, although you probably never expected to see the word “metaphor†in a book titled "Live Like a Pimp."
To those of you who are ready to consider something as outrageous as living the life you want to live; I wish you all the best.
To those of you who are offended by this book’s “misogynistic attitude and perpetuation of the rigid sex-role stereotypes of an oppressive patriarchal white society,†I offer you a sincere bitchslap.
"Live Like a Pimp" is based on the real-life exploits of Malcolm X and the hustlers he knew. The book also includes the allegorical short story, "The Pimp Hand Strikes."
