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Index
Cover
Title
Dedication
Author’s Note
Epigraph
Contents
Prelude
Introduction: The Fear of Black Laughter
Part One
A Native Son of Wistful Vista
“There's a Bad Muthafucka Comin’ Your Way”
Backing Up While Swimming
“A’int That Many of Us to Go Around”
Part Two
“Give Me Some Milk or Else Go Home”
A Way Out of Here Other Than That Door
Monday, December 22, 1969
Part Three
There’s a Riot Goin’ On
The Word Made Flesh
A Screaming Comes Across the Sky
“Nigger, Come Out of That Black Skin and Be Black, Nigger”
“Let It Stay Heavy if Not Hard”
Part Four
“I See That Man in My Mind and Go with Him”
“There’s a Person Here That’s Possessed”
“Let’s Get Him Before Somebody Else Does”
Surrender, Richard
“You Hollywood Faggots Can Kiss My Rich Happy Black Ass”
“Does It Look Like I’m Smiling to You, Motherfucker?”
“When You Get Off That Stage, There’s a Loneliness That Comes Over You”
“My Mind’s Thinking About Shit I Don’t Want to be Thinkin’ About”
Part Five
“The Part of Me That Wanted to Die Did”
Is Comedy Stand-up Poetry?
“I Guess That’s a Smile. I Hope That’s His Face”
“I’m Finding it Hard Imitating Richard Pryor”
The Last Temptation of Richard
Epilogue: Going to Meet the Man
Joe’s Postscript
Acknowledgments
Sources
Copyright
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