Black kindergartener to white teacher: You know, before you were my teacher, I didn’t know white people could be poor.
Atlanta, Georgia
Black kindergartener to white teacher: You know, before you were my teacher, I didn’t know white people could be poor.
Atlanta, Georgia
Guy to friend: He had to make a PowerPoint presentation about making PowerPoint presentation. And I had to walk him through it.
Manuel's Tavern
Atlanta, Georgia
Light-skinned black woman: I’m just saying, I’d have been in the home and not in the fields.
Taco Mac
Atlanta, Georgia
Little boy, desperately: I need to get out of here!
Kohl's Fitting Rooms
Georgia
Overheard by: Iris
Kid: Dad, can we get Pop-Tarts?
Ponytail dad: No.
Kid: Why?
Ponytail dad: Because they're… disgustingly poisonous!
Carrollton, Georgia
Overheard by: Kez
British lit professor, on gays: I have honestly never seen it rain on a gay person. Never. Not once in my life.
Georgia State Lit Class
20-ish girl on cell: No, he’s not gay! He’s just really, really tall…
Marietta, Georgia
Overheard by: Sidlee
Girl to guy: I think that should be my new catch phrase, “I want my pigeons!” But what does that even mean?
Guy: If we knew that, all the world's problems would be solved.
The Star Bar
Atlanta, Georgia