“The cop says, “Hey, boy. Come over here.’ So you go on over. He says ‘Boy, I believe you’re drunk.’ And, you see, if you say, ‘No, no sir,’ he’ll beat you because you’re calling him a liar. And if you say anything else, unless it’s something to make him laugh, he’ll take you in an beat you, just for fun.The trick is to think of some way for them to have their fun without beating you up."
- James Baldwin, "This Morning, This Evening, So Soon"
From Going to Meet the Man (Vintage, 1995)
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