Black teen #1: Yo, let’s go see Blood Diamond.
Black teen #2, with African accent: No, I told you — I don’t want to see that.
Black teen #1: What are you talkin’ ’bout, don’t wanna see it? Nigga, you’re in it!
–Loews, Lincoln Center
Black teen #1: Yo, let’s go see Blood Diamond.
Black teen #2, with African accent: No, I told you — I don’t want to see that.
Black teen #1: What are you talkin’ ’bout, don’t wanna see it? Nigga, you’re in it!
–Loews, Lincoln Center
Black girl: Hey, mister, can we pet your dog?
Tough guy with groomed white poodle on leash: Sure.
Black girl to friend: See, that’s what a poodle looks like when a white man owns it.
–10th & Christopher
Black girl #1: I feel like getting laid.
Black girl #2: You and me, both.
Black girl #1: I think I’m into white guys tonight!
–4 train, Union Square
Overheard by: newyork2boston
Black teen #1, after horror movie preview: Oh, snap, yo!
Black teen #2: Stop being black at the movies!
Black teen #1, in a high voice: Oh, that was totally cool!
–Regal Theater, 42nd St
Overheard by: Rachel
Black guy: Ah, shit, it’s starting to rain.
White passerby: Let’s make it rain on these niggas.
–Hudson & Spring
Overheard by: Jake Perlman-Garr
Ghetto teen #1: He got like a 3.8 or somethin’, and nigga cried.
Ghetto teen #2, to black girl squealing with laughter: You think it’s funny, bitch?
–A train, 168th St
Black 12-year-old boy: Are you Japanese?
Asian 20-year-old guy: Ummm, no…
Black 12-year-old boy: Oh… Chinatownese?
Asian 20-year-old guy: What?
Black 12-year-old boy: Taiwa– I mean, Taiwanese? Thailandonian?
Asian 20-year-old guy: No. I’m American.
–72nd St station
Overheard by: Dave Carpenter
Urban gentleman: Yeah, you can buy the naked cowboy’s picture in Times Square for, like, 25 dollars.
Urban lady: For real? Damn. He hot, though. He definitely waxing. In those briefs, nigga’s gotta be gettin’ a Brazilian.
Urban gentleman: Yeah, I ain’t no homo or nothin’, but how’s he not get hard walkin’ around in nothin’ but briefs?
Urban lady: It’s called ‘entertainment.’
–6 train
Overheard by: Barry Negrin
Black girl: Yo, white boy! Yo, white boy! [White guy ignores her, so she follows him.] White boy! Yo, white boy!
White guy: What?! How would you like it if I yelled, ‘Hey, black girl! Hey, black girl!’?
Black girl: No! It’s okay! I’m white — I went to Pratt.
–Bed-Stuy
Black girl #1: … And you know white girls don’t wear no panties!
Black girl #2: I don’t wear panties either… I mean, I do when I go out, but when I’m at home my labias be swingin’.
–TGIFridays, 34th St
Overheard by: sad to say i was sitting near them
