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...they were giving lunch. You go [to court] looking for justice, and that's just what you find -just us." On his album Bicentennial Nigger he says, "We're celebrating 200 years of white folks kicking ass... You all probably have forgotten about it. Well, I ain't never gonna forget...
...cabarets in Greenwich Village. He wanted to be like Bill Cosby, the first black comedian to achieve national success. As he remembers, he said to himself: "Goddamn it. This nigger's doin' what I'm fixin' to do. I want to be the only nigger. Ain't no room for two niggers...
...country rhythms. The words could be both bittersweet and low on the subjects of loneliness and love: "And there's nothin' short of dyin'/ Half as lonesome as a sound/ On the sleeping city sidewalk;/ Sunday mornin' comin' down." And blunt about sex: "There ain't nothing sweeter than naked emotions/ So you show me yours, hon, and I'll show you mine...
...called herself Afreeka Omfree: "It's really sort of beautiful. Everybody is out on the streets together. There's sort of a party atmosphere." Declared a young man in Bushwick: "Prices have gone too high. Now we're going to have no prices. When we get done, there ain't gonna be no more Broadway." Said a man in his 30s, grasping a wine bottle in one hand and a TV set in another: "You take your chance when you get a chance." Added Gino, 19, a father of two: "We're poor, and this is our way of getting...
...guests included Woody Allen, Al Pacino, Andy Warhol and Designer Calvin Klein. At One Fifth, a Greenwich Village restaurant decorated with fittings from the cruise ship R.M.S. Caronia, a patron quipped: "We've hit an iceberg." Pianist Nat Jones scrounged a candle to light his keyboard and played It Ain't Necessarily So. Unfortunately...