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  1. Paul Beatty _ The White Boy Shuffle

    When I reached the vestibule of my apartment building, the campus police closed in on me. I heard Professor Edelstein shout, it's okay, he's a poet. Matter of fact, the best black ... the best poet writing today." The cops instantly backed off. I was protected by poetic immunity. I had permission to act crazy.
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  2. Paul Beatty _ The White Boy Shuffle

    You either a poet or a homosexual." "Oh, shit, that's fucked up. Why can't I be both?
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  3. Paul Beatty _ The White Boy Shuffle

    Our teacher says we're supposed to be colorblind. That's hard to do if you can see color, isn't it?""Yeah, I'd say so, but I think your teacher means don't make any assumptions based on color.""Cross on the green and not in between.
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  4. Paul Beatty _ The White Boy Shuffle

    It's corny, but I think poems are echoes of the voices in your head and from your past. Your sisters, your father, your ancestors taking to you and through you. Some of it is primal, some of it is hallucinatory bullshit. That madness those boys rapping ain't nothing but urban folklore. They retelling stories passed down from chicken coop to apartment stoop to Ford coupe. Hear that rhyme, boy. Shit, I could get down and rap if I had to. MC Big Mama Osteoporosis in the house.
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  5. Paul Beatty _ The White Boy Shuffle

    Like the good Reverend KingI too 'have a dream'but when I wake upI forget it andremember I'm running late for work.
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