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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Mature Adult
Style
Dramatic
Time & Place
Crown Heights, Brooklyn following the 1991 Crown Heights Conflict
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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Start: The D.A. came back with no indictment Uh, so then our only course was to ask for a special prosecutor which is appointed by the Governor, who’s been hostile, and to sue civilly.

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End: So it’s treating us with absolute contempt and I don’t care how controversial it makes us. I won't tolerate being insulted. If you piss in my face I’m gonna call it piss. I’m not gonna call it rain.

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Anna Deavere Smith, Fires in the Mirror, Random House, 1993, pp. 113-116.

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