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Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me
Author(s): Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor (Author)
- Publisher: 37 Ink
- Publication Date: June 2, 2026
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 1982154500
- ISBN-13: 9781982154509
Book Description
The N-word is one of the most perplexing, controversial and misunderstood words in the American lexicon. It’s a word that Elizabeth Pryor has not only contemplated, it’s one that she has taught and observed up close.
When a white student quoted her father and blurted out the N-word in the middle of a class she was teaching, Professor Pryor’s worlds collided. In that moment, she was forced to confront the history of the notorious slur in the United States, and her complicated relationship with her father Richard Pryor, who made the word a trademark of his comedy in the 1970s.
As she dives into her research, her own memories of the N-word come flooding back in unprocessed memories that she hadn’t thought about for decades. In reckoning with those memories, Elizabeth goes on a more public journey of discovery of the messy and sometimes surprising legacies of racism in the United States.
A braided narrative that seamlessly integrates the history of the N-word with Elizabeth’s own story of growing up the Black Jewish daughter of Richard Pryor,
Something We Said follows Elizabeth as she becomes a leading scholar and teacher of the very word her father put on the pop culture map.Editorial Reviews
Review
—Kirkus Review
"In SOMETHING WE SAID
, Liz Pryor does what I assumed was the impossible, and that's conjure distinct and unexplored pathways to explore a word that's both my favorite and America's least and most honest, through a dexterous and deeply vulnerable symphony of memoir, critique, and celebrity micro biography of said word's most famous user."—Damon Young, New York Times Bestselling Author of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
“Half memoir and half racial history, Elizabeth Pryor explores how the n-word shaped both the public and private worlds of her father, Richard Pryor, and how it defined her own sense of identity as his biracial daughter. . . . Moving, courageous, and intellectually rich, this is a work that reminds us we are far from finished reckoning with the word that has both haunted and defined American life.”
—Michael Eric Dyson, New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop
About the Author
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